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The story of a successful catch. Dark. Menacing. Technically brilliant.
Level 5 immersion therapy for arachnophobes.
Directed by Jan Bitzer, Ilija Brunck andCsaba Letay of Polynoid TV.
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Abandoned by her mother at birth, Estela the Spider Monkey has spent four and a half months being hand-reared by keepers at the Melbourne Zoo Primate Nursery.
You there at the back. Perhaps you’d like to share your little joke with the class.
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This massive spider web in Madagascar was woven by Darwin’s bark spider, a recently-discovered arachnid that uses its incredibly-strong silk, ten times tougher than Kevlar, to make the world’s largest webs. These spiders are known to make orb webs in Andasibe-Mantadia National Park up to 2.8 meters square anchored by 25-meter threads.
More pics here, including a photo of the Darwin’s bark spider you’ll wish you’d never seen.
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