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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 23 2008, 01:50 PM (386 Views) | |
| XNavyGunner | Oct 23 2008, 01:50 PM Post #1 |
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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. ![]() Source |
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| Isis | Oct 23 2008, 11:22 PM Post #2 |
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The Goddess of Darkness & Desire
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Ok this is just weird and sick....
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| Ella | Oct 23 2008, 11:47 PM Post #3 |
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Just imagine running into that at night. |
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| Carcharoth | Oct 23 2008, 11:57 PM Post #4 |
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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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| StrmySummer | Oct 24 2008, 06:58 AM Post #5 |
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omg.......and i thought the spiders that i have around (and sometimes in) my house were huge......*shivers*
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| Mystical | Oct 26 2008, 04:19 AM Post #6 |
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We have some pretty big spiders here. I don't like spiders they freak me out
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omg.......and i thought the spiders that i have around (and sometimes in) my house were huge......*shivers*


We have some pretty big spiders here. I don't like spiders they freak me out 
2:21 AM Jul 11