- October 24th, 2008, 10:16 am
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I would cry
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,443734,00.html
An amazing image of a mammoth spider devouring a bird was taken in the backyard of a property near Cairns, Australia.
The image, which is being cirulated via e-mail 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, said the spider was a golden orb weaver.
"Normally they prey on large insects, it's unusual to see one eating a bird," he said. 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.
Shakespeare said 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.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,443734,00.html
"The enemy will try to tell you that Liberty isn't right for you. Stand against him. Liberty is the only place I want to be." - Ritchie McKay. December 1, 2008.
One schools trash is an ACC school's assistant coach.
"Typical Liberty"
One schools trash is an ACC school's assistant coach.
"Typical Liberty"
i would freak out worse than when i had a gigantic locust land on my shoulder, of course at the time I didn't realize it was a locust and that locusts were harmless, it just looked like a creature straight from the depths of hell was sitting on my shoulder.
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