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Giant spider snapped eating bird in backyard near
Topic Started: Oct 23 2008, 01:50 PM (386 Views)
XNavyGunner
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THIS amazing image of a mammoth spider devouring a bird was taken in the backyard of a property near Cairns.

The image, which is being cirulated via email worldwide, is real, according to wildlife experts, The Cairns Post reported.

The photo, believed to have been taken earlier this week, shows the spider clenching its legs around a lifeless bird trapped in a web at a property near Atherton, west of Cairns.

Joel Shakespeare, the head spider keeper at NSW's Australian Reptile Park, has told ninemsn the spider was a golden orb weaver.

"Normally they prey on large insects, it's unusual to see one eating a bird," he said.

Mr Shakepeare said he had seen golden orb weaver spiders as big as a human hand but the northern species in tropical areas were known to grow larger.

Mr Shakespeare told ninemsn the bird, a chestnut-breasted mannikin which appears frozen in an angel-like pose in the pictures, is likely to have flown into the web and got caught.

"It wouldn't eat the whole bird," he said.

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Ok this is just weird and sick.... :reading:
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Just imagine running into that at night.
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Carcharoth
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Wow! My mum has trouble dealing with the house spiders, who knows what seeing that will do to her.

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:swoon: omg.......and i thought the spiders that i have around (and sometimes in) my house were huge......*shivers*
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:lmao: We have some pretty big spiders here. I don't like spiders they freak me out :swoon:
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