Giant spider eating a bird caught on camera

[Ava]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/10/22/easpider122.xml

:scared:

[dawgmom]

1. Ugh. One of the reasons I will probably never visit Australia

Between the snakes and the spiders....ugh.

[Suich]

2. I read that as "bird eating a spider" and couldn't

figure out what the big deal was...

ICK!!!

[redqueen]

3. Holy crap

why didn't they use those in Arachnaphobia?

This one looks waaaaaay meaner than the fuzzy one they used.

[BlueStateGirl]

4. Why did I look? I feel sick just thinking about the existence of a

spider that large.

[Deep13]

5. SWEETIE, DO NOT LOOK HERE.

Where's the bird's other leg?

[AlCzervik]

6. have you seen the bird eating spider?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWS04I80L3Q

if you're prone to OMG! you may want to not click the link.

it's eating a mouse.

[Ava]

7. oh my god.. why did i click on that?

:scared:

[AlCzervik]

8. a couple of years ago discovery had some programs on about spiders, like nightmare

inducing spiders and i saw that one only it was noming birds.

[BreweryYardRat]

9. See, I think it's cruel to feed a live mouse to that. In the wild, the mouse at least has a chance.

Since you can feed the spider on locusts (one of the linked videos), you've got to be pretty cold-blooded to feed it a mouse.

[pitohui]

10. oh that's a better shot than the other thread, esp. the top photo

however as i said in the other thread we have these giant orb spiders in the usa also, seen em myself

MUCH better shot for confirming ID of the bird, chestnut mannikan or chestnut munia or whatever the common name of the day is for this species