Weird/Random/Interesting/Astonishing Things

[Tungro]

Here you can put up pics or text or random things you find interesting or astonishing,

Spider vesus Opossum

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Full article here: https://ternopilinkling.com/2019/03/01/huge-spider-drags-opossum-across-amazon-rainforest-floor-in-haunting-footage/

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[Jetthebinturong]

Couldn't you, like, put that in a spoiler?

That's gonna haunt my nightmares.

[Tungro]

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[The Witessss]

it looks like a mouse to me, not a possum.

[Jetthebinturong]

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[Tungro]

it looks like a mouse to me, not a possum.

It is because the spider is so big

[The Witessss]

possums don't even live in places where spiders are that big. spiders like that would have to be in Brazil or Africa. and either that is a new-born possum or a mouse.

[Tungro]

possums don't even live in places where spiders are that big. spiders like that would have to be in Brazil or Africa. and either that is a new-born possum or a mouse.

The article provided says that is is a tarantula (that lives in the amazon) who killed a possum (who also lived in the amazon, though it is probably a baby)

[Cornflower MM]

"Every interaction was brutal (in its own way), but none was perhaps as vicious as the late-night slaughter of a mouse opossum by a tarantula (theraphosid spider).

"The spider was on the ground in the leaf litter holding the opossum by the neck region," the researchers described in their paper, noting that the opossum — roughly the size of a softball — was still alive when they spotted the pair.

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Upon reviewing footage of the rare occurrence, Robert Voss, a mammologist at the American Museum of Natural History confirmed that it appeared to be the first-ever documentation of "a large mygalomorph spider [tarantula] preying upon opossums," National Geographic reports."

^From the article Tungro linked.

[The Witessss]

that clears things up. we had one at my house eating our rotton pumpkins that was HUGE. like 2ft tall and a foot wide. ridiculously huge.

[The Skarzs]

A opossum, not a spider, right?

[Tungro]

Both?

[Sebias of Redwall]

neither? 

[The Witessss]

A opossum, not a spider, right?

the possum. my mom goes insane if she sees a daddy-longleg approaching her, let alone having a huge spider on the property

though we did find a black widow on our front porch once...

[Tungro]

Full article here, https://www.local10.com/news/weird-news/massive-alligator-found-in-georgia