seriously...GTFO...if there are that many excess birds, let's organize a minigun hunting day or whatnot but we don't need these fukkers around no more no more, don't need them around no more.
*yes, sounds all gay and flaily and everything but STILL!...don't tell me you like these goddamn things either you lying bastards.
'RIDICULOUSLY HUGE': The birdeater has a leg span of about 30cm and weighs up to 170g.
The South American Goliath birdeater is the spider of many people's nightmares, but encountering one of the puppy-sized critters in a dark rain forest in Guyana was a dream come true for entomologist Piotr Naskrecki.
The largest spider in the world, the birdeater has a leg span of about 30cm, weighs up to 170g, and hardened tips and claws on its feet that make a clicking sound when it walks.
Naskrecki was looking for katydids the night he encountered a Goliath. He had turned his headlamp off to concentrate on listening when he heard the sound of an animal running in complete darkness.
"I could clearly hear its hard feet hitting the ground and dry leaves crumbling under its weight. I pressed the switch and pointed the light at the source of the sound, expecting to see a small mammal, a possum, a rat maybe," Naskrecki recounted in his blog The Smaller Majority.
"And at first this is what I thought I saw – a big, hairy animal, the size of a rodent."
But something was not right, so within a second the entomologist was lunging at the spider, "ecstatic about finally seeing one of these wonderful, almost mythical creatures in person".
"Goliath birdeaters are ridiculously huge for a land arthropod," Naskrecki said.
"Every time I got too close to the birdeater it would do three things. First, the spider would start rubbing its hind legs against the hairy abdomen. 'Oh, how cute!', I thought when I first saw this adorable behaviour, until a cloud of urticating hair hit my eyeballs, and made me itch and cry for several days." Urticating hair contained microscopic barbs.
"If that wasn't enough, the arachnid would rear its front legs and open its enormous fangs, capable of puncturing a mouse's skull, and tried to jab me with the pointy implements. The venom of a birdeater is not deadly to humans but, in combination with massive puncture wounds the fangs were capable of inflicting, it was definitely something to be avoided.
"And then there was a loud hissing sound."
more fun
World's largest spider 'the size of a rodent' | Stuff.co.nz
*yes, sounds all gay and flaily and everything but STILL!...don't tell me you like these goddamn things either you lying bastards.
'RIDICULOUSLY HUGE': The birdeater has a leg span of about 30cm and weighs up to 170g.
The South American Goliath birdeater is the spider of many people's nightmares, but encountering one of the puppy-sized critters in a dark rain forest in Guyana was a dream come true for entomologist Piotr Naskrecki.
The largest spider in the world, the birdeater has a leg span of about 30cm, weighs up to 170g, and hardened tips and claws on its feet that make a clicking sound when it walks.
Naskrecki was looking for katydids the night he encountered a Goliath. He had turned his headlamp off to concentrate on listening when he heard the sound of an animal running in complete darkness.
"I could clearly hear its hard feet hitting the ground and dry leaves crumbling under its weight. I pressed the switch and pointed the light at the source of the sound, expecting to see a small mammal, a possum, a rat maybe," Naskrecki recounted in his blog The Smaller Majority.
"And at first this is what I thought I saw – a big, hairy animal, the size of a rodent."
But something was not right, so within a second the entomologist was lunging at the spider, "ecstatic about finally seeing one of these wonderful, almost mythical creatures in person".
"Goliath birdeaters are ridiculously huge for a land arthropod," Naskrecki said.
"Every time I got too close to the birdeater it would do three things. First, the spider would start rubbing its hind legs against the hairy abdomen. 'Oh, how cute!', I thought when I first saw this adorable behaviour, until a cloud of urticating hair hit my eyeballs, and made me itch and cry for several days." Urticating hair contained microscopic barbs.
"If that wasn't enough, the arachnid would rear its front legs and open its enormous fangs, capable of puncturing a mouse's skull, and tried to jab me with the pointy implements. The venom of a birdeater is not deadly to humans but, in combination with massive puncture wounds the fangs were capable of inflicting, it was definitely something to be avoided.
"And then there was a loud hissing sound."
more fun
World's largest spider 'the size of a rodent' | Stuff.co.nz
