Lol Watch This!! (Camel spiders)

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they don’t eat flesh?
ummm negative

Moderator warning: the link is pretty disgusting, unless you like to watch critters eating other critters. – CKDH

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Referencing Do camel spiders eat a camel’s stomach until its intestines fall out?

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So now the question becomes: “define flesh”

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Is it not common knowledge that the larger spiders go after vertebrates? Hence the name (for some of them) Bird Eating Spider.

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Poor Komodo dragon.

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How big is that spider? There isnt much to reference it to but from what I can tell that spider is at least the size of my hand. That link to a past post says they dont get as large as your hand but it also says they dont eat anything but insects…which we now know is obviously wrong.

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I can’t be absolutely sure, due to the poor quality of the footage, but that plant on the right-hand side of the frame looks like Ecballium elaterium - the squirting cucumber, common around arid parts of the Med and middle east (which overlaps the range of the camel spider) - if so, then those leaves are about an inch across and that fast-moving insect crawling across the rock is the size of a small honey bee; that makes the arachnid about the size of a man’s hand.

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Yeah. The lizard/meal appears to be a leopard gecko (or something similar) so I would support Mangetout’s size estimate.

(Mangetout: how appropriate your username is in this thread.)

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I assume you mean the body of the arachnid, legs excluded?

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I haven’t seen him touting any mange in this thread. :dubious:

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Firefox is telling me I need an “unknown plugin” to view whatevers on the page. Anyone know what plugin I need, by chance?

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If you’re not running Windows (or are running a very old version), that may be your problem. It seems to need Windows Media Player

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European man’s hand, or African man’s hand?

[sub]Well, someone had to ask it[/sub]

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Specifically, it seems to need a particularly recent version of WMP, which is not yet available for Mac (nor, I would presume, any other non-Windows XP OS).

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Sure was hard to swallow, though.

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I assume you’re joking, but mange tout (pronounced monj too) is French for “eats everything”.
I asked him once :smiley:

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I think I actually mean that a rough appreciation of what it must look like to have this thing in your bathtub could be had by using your hand to simulate the beastie walking; overall leg span is probably a bit broader than the full hand, body size/length is probably approximately that of the palm and part of the wrist.

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I presume the comment is a reference to the arachnid eating the entire lizard.

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Thanks.

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I’d been wondering if it were that or “Man, get out!” Another truly trivial question answered…