Giant spider snapped eating bird in backyard near Cairns

Postby dogged » October 29th, 2008, 1:51 pm

Click on the link for the pic. I'm going to barf.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24 ... 60,00.html

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.
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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.

See more pictures at The Cairns Post.
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Postby mnp13 » October 29th, 2008, 1:56 pm

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Postby StalkerBlueDog » October 29th, 2008, 4:18 pm

Wow! That's incredible!
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Postby iluvk9 » October 29th, 2008, 4:23 pm

Holy Crap!! :shock:
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Postby Jenn » October 29th, 2008, 4:29 pm

I HATE HATE HATE spiders, and I'm scared to look..
I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure....
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Postby iluvk9 » October 29th, 2008, 4:30 pm

Jenn wrote:I HATE HATE HATE spiders, and I'm scared to look..

DON'T DO IT JENN!!!!
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Postby Jenn » October 29th, 2008, 4:36 pm

Well I most definitely WON'T now... :giggle:
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Postby BigDogBuford » October 29th, 2008, 4:44 pm

I now have the heebie jabeebies.
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Postby pitbullmamaliz » October 29th, 2008, 5:00 pm

Yeah, me too. :o
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Postby StalkerBlueDog » October 29th, 2008, 5:03 pm

I got bit by a water spider this summer.. it made my foot swell up and I got cellulitus in the top of my foot.. not a pleasant experience. I had to buy a new pair of shoes because my foot was a size bigger then my other one..

Not fun. But I do like spiders.. they eat mosquitos.. and I like them even less then spiders.
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