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Tarantulas eat ALIVE

If you find having a tarantula crawling over your hand hair-raising, you’ve gotta see them eat to scale up your feeling.

Tarantulas are predators. In the wild when the hunger comes they will prey on almost everything smaller- insects, geckos, tree frogs, and even venomous snakes. The way they hunt is fascinating. Unlike other spiders tarantulas don’t spin web. Instead, they capture prey on their own by their speed and power. Fangs are located underneath so they will swiftly move on top of the prey, bite, and eat.

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From the prey’s view it would be extremely scary. Imagine a huge
hairy spider jumps on top of you, and you’re surrounded by 8 hairy legs getting a nasty bite on top of your head by 2 huge shape fangs. It’s
kinda like you’re going to a salon for a perm and inside the machine
there are 2 vertical swords waiting.. Finally venom is injected directly into your brain and you suffer gigantic pain before falling into a
coma. Even after you die your body melts into bloody liquid turning into nutrition for another creature… Alright, luckily there’s not yet any
tarantula found bigger than human :)

But everything has its good side if you will use some brain. Our
tarantulas are mainly fed on insects. so no bloody scene during feeding. I always try to find interesting facts out of scary critters. Here is one now I can think of. Interesting to tell, unlike other animals, the smaller young tarantulas eat more than the bigger adults. Spiderlings
can feed as much as everyday, while adults can fast for 3 months or
more. Besides, tarantulas can smell. Without nostrils they smell by
feet. Imagine you have to step on a cheesecake with barefoot to taste
it. :)

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and kids love tarantulas
13 年多 ago
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thats true. kids are the critters' real enemies :)
13 年多 ago

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