Venomous Tarantula!

I was watching 'National Geographic' on SCV this morning & saw this documentary about the Tarantula Spiders! I had always knew that this was a deadly venomous spider, but I don't recall it being so poisonous & deadly!

One scene in this short documentary showed this Tarantula Spider facing off with another venomous snake. This venomous snake is also very deadly; one bite & immediate amputation of the limb is necessary, if not the person would die very quickly.

Both these dangerous creatures were looking at each other, before they suddenly attacked. The fight lasted less than 2 seconds, with the Tarantula Spider leaping back right after the attack. For a few moments, both didn't move & I wondered what had happened.

Slowly, the Tarantula Spider crept towards the venomous snake & started to bite into its body. Then the commentator said that the Tarantula Spider had bitten the venomous snake & within just 4 minutes, this long venomous snake had died! What was next said & watched shocked me...

This Tarantula Spider's venom is so powerful that it doesn't just kill its prey, in this case it was a huge venomous snake which was like 10 times its full size! Furthermore, once this spider's venom enters its prey's body, it starts to slowly dissolve its prey FROM WITHIN! I was so shocked to hear that from the commentator!

It was both shocking & scary to watch this Tarantula Spider suck up the contents of this huge venomous snake. Not eat, but almost like it was drinking up this snake! And after 17 & 1/2 hours, what is left of this long snake is just its dead dried skin! My heart almost like froze when I saw this Tarantula Spider drag away the remaining scaled skin of that snake...

Thinking about it now, I just feel like vomitting... but such is the awesome deadliness of wild species in the jungle. Very scary... almost beyond my imagination. And just to end of this Blog, another section of this documentary showed a red-winged wasp attack & nearly killed this Tarantula Spider! Wow! It's only a wasp leh! Scary... the wildlife kingdom...