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I would cry

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

That is way creepier looking than those Goliath Tarantulas.

wow, i think i would too..holy crap

LUconn wrote:That is way creepier looking than those Goliath Tarantulas.

I cant believe that some idiot is holding that thing...

i literally DID get teary eyed looking at it..spiders are the worst.

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justagirl wrote:i literally DID get teary eyed looking at it..spiders are the worst.

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justagirl wrote:

TylerBakersGonnaBGreat wrote:

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justagirl wrote:

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justagirl wrote:i literally DID get teary eyed looking at it..spiders are the worst.

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just imagine if that spider touched you. 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.

flamesbball84 wrote:just imagine if that spider touched you. 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.

Seeing this spider makes me want to get my concealed weapons permit... I would put 5 shots in that thing without thinking.

flamesbball84 wrote:just imagine if that spider touched you. 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.

pansy.

lol the locust was like 6 inches long, that thing was HUGE. the thing was crawling towards my face.

locust? is that what the kids are calling it now a days?

flamesbball84 wrote:lol the locust was like 6 inches long, that thing was HUGE. the thing was crawling towards my face.

Thanks...

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30cm across. I assume that's big because the news article says it is.

LUconn wrote: 30cm across. I assume that's big because the news article says it is.

30 cm = 11.8110 inches

BIG.

<<<< not a fan of spiders

at all

PAmedic wrote:30 cm = 11.8110 inches

BIG.

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Hold My Own wrote:

PAmedic wrote:30 cm = 11.8110 inches

BIG.

Believe me...I know

That is not what she said.