Spider catches snake

kosh

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Saw this one today and thought it was interesting......

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kosh said:
Saw this one today and thought it was interesting......
I never knew that spiders have beaks and suck blood.

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RichardDegville

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Didn't a Theraphosa blondi catch and kill a Fer-de-lance snake in the Giant Spiders documentary? I thought it was pretty cool and here's most of us brits forced by law to feed dead mice or crickets to our beloved beasts yeh I know they can survive on them but its not very natural is it now?
 

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I saw that footage. I recall it being a parahybana?

Anyhow, the battle was probably staged, just like Jerry Springer and The Bachelor!
 

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RichardDegville said:
Didn't a Theraphosa blondi catch and kill a Fer-de-lance snake in the Giant Spiders documentary? I thought it was pretty cool and here's most of us brits forced by law to feed dead mice or crickets to our beloved beasts yeh I know they can survive on them but its not very natural is it now?
I saw a T blondi catch a fer-de-lance on tv. It might be the same one that you saw. It was either on Animal Planet or Nat Geographic Channel.
 

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{D Spiders have BEAKS???? {D Is that what you call a "Birdspider", LMAO!
 

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It was a T blondi and a L parahybana in two different shows. The T blondi scene was staged. I thought the parahybana scene was more impressive- it actually hung on to the snake throughout the struggle whereas the blondi bit the snake, then retreated and waited for the venom to work.
 

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I'm a little disapointed that the story doesn't include what kind of spider it was
 

kosh

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yeah, i thought the beak thing was kinda "out-there" too.....

the last sentence of the story called the spider a "hunter" spider so i wonder if it was one of those big "huntsman" spiders if they have them in China...and hopefully Huntsmans are not "house" spiders in China!!!
 

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Yeah spiders don't have beaks, they don't suck blood, and they aren't poisoness.....nice article though.....but they need to get their facts straight.
 

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Rick had said the fer-de-lance was staged in an artificial burrow and I think it took a bunch of tries to get the result "they" wanted".
Sky had at one point a link to a pic of a widow with a small snake in its web, so this isnt that out there. Nice sized scorps can be taken by a widow too
T
 

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Mattyb said:
Yeah spiders don't have beaks, they don't suck blood, and they aren't poisoness.....nice article though.....but they need to get their facts straight.
They are VENOMOUS! :D
 

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**please Note Smiley At End Of Post**
 

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Hmmmm, could you feed a T a garter snake? Or do you think the stinky varment might repell the T? :?
 

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RichardDegville said:
Didn't a Theraphosa blondi catch and kill a Fer-de-lance snake in the Giant Spiders documentary? I thought it was pretty cool and here's most of us brits forced by law to feed dead mice or crickets to our beloved beasts yeh I know they can survive on them but its not very natural is it now?
Yes, that poorly staged scene was the only semi-bright spot in a very disapointing video, Predators of the Wild: Giant Tarantula. They needed to drop the Shaman spirit guide of the Amazon theme that made this one of the lamest T documentaries of all time.
 
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