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Giant Spider Eating a Bird caught on Camera

telegraph.co.uk — Photographs of a giant spider eating a bird in an Australian garden have stunned wildlife experts. The pictures show the spider with its long black legs wrapped around the body of a dead bird suspended in its web.

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  • mobbo, on 10/22/2008, -9/+1205Never...going...to...Australia.
  • ravan46, on 10/22/2008, -4/+460I would feel much better if that spider was dead.
  • maximilen, on 10/22/2008, -5/+431Arachno-f*cking-phobia..
  • pbone, on 10/22/2008, -6/+382kill it with fire!
  • WootZoot, on 10/22/2008, -3/+377holy *****.

    HOLY *****!!!
  • Sebthelodgemn, on 10/22/2008, -5/+343***** THE HARPOONS, NUKE IT FROM ORBIT
  • redtaboo, on 10/22/2008, -2/+262I read the Headline, I read the synopsis, I knew there would be pictures .... I still clicked the link.
    I guess deserve the horrible feeling I have now.

    /***** hates spiders!!!!!
  • abrasion, on 10/23/2008, -3/+259I'm from Australia, it's true, there's creatures like this everywhere, just today one of those spiders was crawling across my keyboard with a bird in it's mouth.

    Then I went to work on my kangaroo, nearly ran over 12 tasmanian devils on the way to work and we're having a huge epidemic of flying snakes this year - they'll take your arm clean off - crikey.

    The security guy at work is a great white shark and I'm using a wombat as a footstall.
    We should have electricity soon and rumour has it they might consider introducing television as well - times are looking up.

    I better stop this post now, I am about to drink my 1200'th beer for the morning and steal some *****.
  • j3ff86, on 10/22/2008, -5/+236"***** spider eats a bird"
  • gusto, on 10/22/2008, -7/+218Or maybe it's a *really* tiny bird
  • inactive, on 10/22/2008, -3/+200Did Noah really let a pair of those things on his ark? Foolish, foolish man.
  • yohnstoppable, on 10/22/2008, -1/+184indeed he did. What do you think killed the dinosaurs?
  • xXGOODnessXx, on 10/22/2008, -10/+173omg omg omg OMFG OH MY GOODNESS IM FREAKING OUT OMG THAT IS SO EHJghjahsdgvjhsdgfvhjslbf ewww omg
  • TheGreatBelow, on 10/22/2008, -4/+166Who remembers clock spider?
  • yohnstoppable, on 10/22/2008, -2/+151"Mr 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."

    I'd like to know which state is host to spiders bigger than my hand, so I can stay the ***** away from it.
  • sulakattack, on 10/22/2008, -5/+151Don't.... make..... Charlotte.....angry.........
  • Cassanova, on 10/22/2008, -0/+135You ever watch those shows "Deadliest Insects", "Deadliest birds", "Deadliest Cats", "Deadliest Flowers" on the discovery channel. Almost every time the top killer is from Australia. Seems like everything there can kill you.
  • zookee, on 10/22/2008, -5/+120http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Clockspider.jpg
  • DeadPlasmaCell, on 10/22/2008, -1/+93Ugh.. I walked into a Golden Orb Weaver while I was mowing my lawn... freaky *****. Here she is..yuck.

    http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-8/341287/IMG_0 ...

    /South Texas
  • cyreeo, on 10/22/2008, -3/+94Leather work gloves: $5.00
    Face mask: $10.00
    Two bricks: $1.00

    Ridding the world of one giant bird-eating spider so no one has to worry about it again: priceless
  • copypastry, on 10/22/2008, -0/+88so much for sleeping tonight.
  • algaeturd, on 10/22/2008, -2/+88I'm really impressed to see that they used an actual drywall screw system to hang that clock rather than just tossing any old wood screw in there. I mean, it's just a clock. A plain wood screw would have been fine but would have ruined the wall a bit more.
  • tallguyg, on 10/22/2008, -1/+82i hate you
  • relaxeder, on 04/17/2009, -2/+81....Yeah, ***** that thing.
  • thestorey, on 10/22/2008, -2/+79http://thestorey.googlepages.com/IMG_0020.JPG
    Horse Spider
  • mrseptic, on 10/22/2008, -0/+74Guys, guys...there's a freaky-ass spider monster next to the neat screw.
  • MrBigWords, on 10/22/2008, -0/+74it's the only way to be sure
  • tbuiler, on 10/22/2008, -9/+80Oh yeah? Well this one's eating my house:
    http://www.builer.net/Archive/Images/Halloween2006 ...
  • brentinkc, on 10/22/2008, -0/+68I have a feeling that spider has a glass of raid for breakfast in the mornings.

    Better off with a tennis racket
  • mrseptic, on 10/22/2008, -0/+65sorry, I had to bury you because that's scary as *****.
  • yohnstoppable, on 10/22/2008, -1/+58xXGOODnessXx put my thoughts into words perfectly. If I saw one of the *****, I'd just hope my high pitches girly screams would shatter my glass back door, which would hasten my escape.
  • kemikalkemikal, on 10/22/2008, -2/+58Ahhhh, it's not the big spiders you gotta worry about down here, it's the smaller ones you don't see like redbacks and funnel webs. Then there's the snakes, just don't go near the brown ones... oh yeah and up north, those big salty crocs eat a lot of people.... Other than that Australia is a very safe place.
  • Culero, on 10/22/2008, -1/+55well see the problem is if there's no stud behind it then it is in order. (by eyeballing it, it seems to be less than 16" from the frame of the window, so no stud there would be my guess)
  • Donniehoward08, on 10/22/2008, -4/+57"Get off me you EIGHT.....LEGGED.......FREEEEEEEAAAAAKS!!!!!"

    -the one guy in that one movie
  • inactive, on 10/22/2008, -2/+54A girl on Digg?!
  • mrzisme, on 10/22/2008, -0/+51Spiders didnt exist until the creatures started cross ***** on Noah's boat. Eventually a monkey ***** a lobster, the offspring of that ***** a centipede, and the first spider was born. Its a fact.
  • BigDigg55, on 10/22/2008, -1/+52Oh a Titanic reference nice
  • JustinHopewell, on 10/22/2008, -0/+50@radicaldementia:

    Correction: YOU can pick them up. : |
  • jonmac, on 10/22/2008, -2/+51That ***** pelican is screwed.
  • malechite, on 10/22/2008, -0/+49Wow...usually spiders dont bother me, but holy *****.... that thing sent chills up my spine
  • mcse2k3, on 10/22/2008, -1/+50What kind of wussy ass bird is that to get hung up and die in a spider web?
  • noPCtoday, on 10/22/2008, -2/+50*****, it can kill fire!!!
  • snotrokit, on 10/22/2008, -2/+49if you don't have it now, you will when you see that.
  • eatsushi, on 10/22/2008, -3/+49In the words of the great Keanu Reeves starring in The Matrix

    "..Whoa.."
  • 2ndEdition, on 10/22/2008, -0/+45you missed.
    spider crawls on your arm
    spider bites you

    you die: worthless
  • PorchSong, on 10/22/2008, -0/+43Runs to corner, shuddering and weeping uncontrolably, with a death grip around a can of Raid in one hand, and a big ass shoe in the other.
  • inactive, on 10/22/2008, -0/+43:)
  • fullphaser, on 10/22/2008, -0/+43The kind that gets eaten by a ***** huge spider
  • Vivifyer, on 10/22/2008, -0/+42http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=eNEeq5qGh8I

    Come to Australia, you might accidently get killed!

    :D
  • coldman, on 10/22/2008, -2/+44shelob's daugther!
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