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I’m glad these things are small, otherwise we might be in trouble.
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Wow! I’ve never seen those before. That’s pretty incredible!
Brrr.
It’s the being eaten alive deal that would be the worst if spiders were huge.
Have you seen the camel spider? Or that bird-eating spider?
Do wish they’d have shown it real-time rather than slo-mo
That is awesome :D Evolution makes wonderful creatures.
Im glad Im not bush cricket.
Amazing
That’s from David Attenborough’s Life in the Undergrowth, which is awesome. I highly recommend the whole thing. The episode that shows the complex relationships between different insect species should put to death once and for all the notion of a good, kind, loving creator. It’s basically one example after another of the way some insects deceive and parasitize other species–pretty horrific, but very cool.
That’s pretty impressive. You should check out the Bolas Spider. I read about that in Richard Dawkins’ Climbing Mount Improbable and immediately hit YouTube to check it out.
camel spider: not a spider. not that huge, either, maxing out at about 5″ legspan. not venomous, can’t really jump.
bird-eating spider (theraphosa blondii, a tarantula) only mildly venomous, but its size is sure impressive: specimens have been found with up to a 12″ legspan. those are often the tarantulas you see “native tribesmen” frying up on nature shows.
spiders are so damn cool
That is sooo disgusting.
I’m sorry, it is fascinating and amazing, as well… I just don’t like spiders.
Spider’s creep me the heck out.
It’s interesting… it is like a backwards trap-door spider.
It was the music that sort of makes you feel sad at what’s going to happen. Definitely added some drama to the whole thing :) Glad I’m not a cricket :)
Magnificent little beast. I’ve seen this fellow regularly here in Australia. We have a number of goodies like this one. I work with birds but spiders are just another of the many fascinating groups which grace the planet IMO.
It’s also a testament to the awesome power of natural selection which can shape a creature with the tools, skills and motivations to produce such behaviour.
I’m surprised no one tried to make the correlation to religion…you know with the web being dogma and it being so hard to escape from…and it ultimately ends up killing your reasoning….yadda yadda. That would have been fun. :)
Matt: I think someone just did…
haha…I was just waiting for someone to point that out. :)
I hate spiders! Yuck!
Nature never ceases to amaze me! Awesome!