Video Of Massive Australian Spider Goes Viral As It Carries A Dead Mouse Up A Refrigerator

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In further proof that everything is stranger and more terrible in Australia, footage of an enormous banded huntsmen spider dragging a dead mouse up a fridge in Coppabella, Queensland, went viral on social media this weekend. 

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It is unclear whether spider—nicknamed Hermie by the surprisingly cavalier humans who discovered and proceeded to videotape it, rather than burning their house to the ground, collecting an insurance payout and moving abroad—actually killed the mouse. But arachnid expert Helen Smith of the Australian Museum said probably not.

“I would be very surprised if a huntsman would attack a mouse and even if it did, that the venom would be sufficient to kill it fast enough for the spider to still have hold of it,” Smith told The Guardian.

Nevertheless, banded huntsmen, which can grow to have a legspan of over six inches (16 cm), have been known to catch other vertebrates, including geckos. So perhaps we shouldn’t be shocked that this gnarly predator has developed an appetite for the occasional dead mammal.

 

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