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ZfrkS62 08-25-2005 09:52 PM
Mantis vs. Bird
 
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/918...bird7gf.th.jpg

I knew these bugs were cool, but DAMN!

ZfrkS62 08-25-2005 10:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Ronin005
OH SHIT, funny thing the other day on leno he had on some dude with some animals and one of them was a spider that killed birds. pretty crazy.
There are 2 or 3 species that do that. one of them is availible as a pet and that's the Goliath Bird Eater Tarantula. 12inch leg span :wink:

styla21 08-25-2005 10:32 PM
Thanks for posting this mate.. Praying mantis is the style of Kung Fu i'm learning, and according to legend this is how the style was developed, in a fight between a mantis and a bird.
Never saw a pic of the 'finished product' though! :P

ZfrkS62 08-25-2005 10:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Ronin005
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Originally Posted by ZfrkS62
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Originally Posted by Ronin005
OH SHIT, funny thing the other day on leno he had on some dude with some animals and one of them was a spider that killed birds. pretty crazy.
There are 2 or 3 species that do that. one of them is availible as a pet and that's the Goliath Bird Eater Tarantula. 12inch leg span :wink:
it was bird eater someting, but it wasnt a dangerous spider as leno was holding it and not worried.

but what i thought was weird was how they caught the birds. they would place web over a hole in the ground and cover it up, and then when the bird walks over the hole, it would fall in and the spider would go into the hole. pretty damn crafty.
Spiders are incredibly crafty. The Trap Door spider covers the ground in non-stick webs, digs out a hole and lines it with the sticky stuff and then pulls a large rock over it leaving only it's leg on one of the webs outside so that it can feel bugs walking in front of it. Once they get close...... :twisted:

exhausted mules 08-25-2005 10:55 PM
yeah, nature has a way of surprising even its most adapted species. us humans.

but its funny how the better we get at dealing with millions of new issues presented to us everyday.. we seem to lose our capability of doing one thing well as this mantis has so willingly demonstrated for us here.

ZfrkS62 08-25-2005 11:05 PM
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yeah, nature has a way of surprising even its most adapted species. us humans.
No kidding. Just look at our pets. Seriously, who trained who here? We train the dog not to shit in the house. Now it barks at the door so that we'll let it out.
My bird throws his toy off the cage and i pick it back up for him so he can do it again..

Remind me again who is supposed to have the bigger brain?

Toronto 08-25-2005 11:27 PM
some info here
http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/si...irdwireJul2005

ZfrkS62 08-25-2005 11:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Ronin005
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Originally Posted by ZfrkS62
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Originally Posted by Ronin005
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Originally Posted by ZfrkS62
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Originally Posted by Ronin005
OH SHIT, funny thing the other day on leno he had on some dude with some animals and one of them was a spider that killed birds. pretty crazy.
There are 2 or 3 species that do that. one of them is availible as a pet and that's the Goliath Bird Eater Tarantula. 12inch leg span :wink:
it was bird eater someting, but it wasnt a dangerous spider as leno was holding it and not worried.

but what i thought was weird was how they caught the birds. they would place web over a hole in the ground and cover it up, and then when the bird walks over the hole, it would fall in and the spider would go into the hole. pretty damn crafty.
Spiders are incredibly crafty. The Trap Door spider covers the ground in non-stick webs, digs out a hole and lines it with the sticky stuff and then pulls a large rock over it leaving only it's leg on one of the webs outside so that it can feel bugs walking in front of it. Once they get close...... :twisted:
aww, maybe it was this one then. the guy did mention something about the spider staying in contact with the web to sense when something was passing over. but the name doesnt sound familiar. oh well, they seem to be doing the same thing.
The kill method you described sound much different. Plus, bird eating spiders are much bigger than this trap door spider. I think the TD is only about as big as an average Wolf Spider.

ZfrkS62 08-26-2005 12:00 AM
I just noticed Toronto's post. How the hell did you find that?? Toronto = Google Expert :lol:

Ronin, most spiders use that web sensing trick. There are only a few i can think of that dont. The most obvious being the common jumping spider and the water spider.

ZfrkS62 08-26-2005 12:35 AM
^^ damn straight

Toronto 08-26-2005 04:11 PM
don't you eat like 8 spiders a year in your sleep or somthing like that? or maybe it is a 8 bugs a year and most are spiders?

ZfrkS62 08-26-2005 06:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Toronto
don't you eat like 8 spiders a year in your sleep or somthing like that? or maybe it is a 8 bugs a year and most are spiders?
It's something like that. You're also never more than 8 feet from a spider at any given time :wink:


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