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Watch this massive tarantula drag an opossum it just killed
Boing Boing ^
| 28 Feb 2019
Posted on 02/28/2019 6:14:16 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Peru's lowland tropical forest to document invertebrates and saw an uncommon sight: a large tarantula, the size of a "dinner plate" with "massive fangs" catching and eating a baby opossum. Although they didn't capture on video the part where the tarantula caught the animal, they were the first to ever record a tarantula feasting on an opossum.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Gardening; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: msmuffett
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We have opossum around here, no tarantulas that I have noticed?
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posted on
02/28/2019 6:14:16 PM PST
by
DUMBGRUNT
To: DUMBGRUNT
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posted on
02/28/2019 6:14:54 PM PST
by
DUMBGRUNT
("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!")
To: DUMBGRUNT
Thank God for the polar vortex
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posted on
02/28/2019 6:15:39 PM PST
by
2banana
(Were you)
To: DUMBGRUNT
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posted on
02/28/2019 6:15:46 PM PST
by
TheZMan
(I am a secessionist.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
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posted on
02/28/2019 6:17:35 PM PST
by
RedMonqey
("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
To: DUMBGRUNT
The opossum isn't dead, it's merely ...wait for it ...playing possum.
To: DUMBGRUNT
Perhaps he was just playing possum.
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posted on
02/28/2019 6:19:12 PM PST
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
I had a black widow living in a shed, take down a tarantula at least 10x bigger.
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posted on
02/28/2019 6:21:03 PM PST
by
Scrambler Bob
(You know that I am full of /S)
To: Paal Gulli
The opossum isn’t dead, it’s merely ...wait for it ...playing possum.
Probably true.
One evening my wife came to tell of how the dogs killed a possum in the backyard, would I take care of it.
Yet somehow it wandered away.
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posted on
02/28/2019 6:24:36 PM PST
by
DUMBGRUNT
("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!")
To: 2banana
Thank God for the polar vortex
YES!
If global warming brings giant tarantulas up to DuPage County...
I might have to purchase a Tesla to fight global warming?
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posted on
02/28/2019 6:28:33 PM PST
by
DUMBGRUNT
("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!")
To: RedMonqey
"Small possum" Or really big tarantula.
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posted on
02/28/2019 6:31:31 PM PST
by
fidelis
(Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Roaches play possum, too.
Smack them more than once... even if it’s on it’s back playing dead.
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posted on
02/28/2019 6:39:12 PM PST
by
Conserv
To: fidelis
By the foliage, I’d say “small possum and large spider.
Definitely not Tennessee spiders nor possums.
Possums a bit bigger and the spiders smaller.
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posted on
02/28/2019 6:40:23 PM PST
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RedMonqey
("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
To: DUMBGRUNT
Occasional-Consciousness on her wedding night.
To: DUMBGRUNT
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posted on
02/28/2019 6:49:04 PM PST
by
seawolf101
(Member LES DEPLORABLES)
To: DUMBGRUNT
I want to see a battle between a Tarantula and a camel “spider”.
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posted on
02/28/2019 6:55:22 PM PST
by
JudgemAll
(Democrats Fed. job-security in hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
To: seawolf101
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posted on
02/28/2019 6:57:26 PM PST
by
bk1000
(I stand with Trump)
To: DUMBGRUNT
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posted on
02/28/2019 7:16:50 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
To: DUMBGRUNT
Thank you, Lord, for having me born in mid-Michigan! And for not giving me a desire to travel to far away places.
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posted on
02/28/2019 7:21:04 PM PST
by
mombonn
(God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Almost as big as my emotional support tarantula, he barly fits in my carry-on
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posted on
02/28/2019 7:40:50 PM PST
by
DanielRedfoot
(Liberalism is a mental disorder, and is revealed through abject stupidity)
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