Still Waters Posted January 19, 2017 #1 Share Posted January 19, 2017 You have probably seen the viral video of an Australian huntsman spider dragging a mouse up the side of a fridge. Well, we can top that. The huntsman footage is undoubtedly remarkable. The spider is displaying amazing strength and extraordinary gripping power: the surface of that fridge is really smooth, hardly conducive to easy climbing. But in one key respect, it is trivial: the spider probably did not kill the mouse. The mouse's stiff tail and saggy belly are both clues that it had been dead for a while. So what the video showed was, in fact, nothing more than a rather impressive feat of heavy-duty scavenging. However, look deeper into the animal kingdom and there are plenty of examples of "creepy-crawlies" like spiders subduing and killing animals far larger than themselves. http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170118-monstrous-spiders-and-centipedes-that-prey-on-large-animals 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freetoroam Posted January 19, 2017 #2 Share Posted January 19, 2017 OWwww Still Waters, you should have put a warning sign....the face of that poor toad being eaten by the wolf spider is heart wrenching. But, the rest is what nature is about, humans do the same, we eat animals which before they are put on the spit or in the oven, were bigger than us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hammerclaw Posted January 19, 2017 #3 Share Posted January 19, 2017 (edited) 323 million years ago, during the Carboniferous you might have crossed paths with one of these. No worries! It was an herbivore. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/5c/b7/0d/5cb70d6fa6079ef37cf6b829821d63ea.jpg Edited January 19, 2017 by Still Waters Replaced copyrighted image with link 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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