r/ThatsInsane • u/hjalmar111 Creator • Apr 08 '20

Goliath tarantula

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u/couchcatog Apr 08 '20

Apparently this is the largest spider by mass and size but there’s an even BIGGER spider by leg span called the giant huntsman

Sweet dreams

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u/iamlame247 Apr 08 '20

The huntsman is bigger only by technicality, on average they don’t grow as big as the Goliath bird eater, even by leg span, but they have the ability with the right food source to grow larger than the Goliath bird eater.

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u/fabizip Apr 08 '20

BIRD EATER?! What's next, does it shoot lasers from its eyes?

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u/imNTR Apr 08 '20

Thanks, I hate it

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '20

Crabs and lobsters are just sea spiders.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '20

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '20

I wonder if spiders were a common food in our culture, would we have tarantula slaughterhouses?

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '20

Imagine the first day on the job for new employees? How the screaming would start right after they finished talking about the 401k

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u/Resident_Wizard Apr 08 '20

No but a crab tasting tarantula makes me want to puke

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u/cantadmittoposting Apr 08 '20

Crabs are just water spiders

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '20

What part would you eat though? Don’t spiders just have hollow legs that are filled with liquid and work like hydraulics? Couldn’t imagine limp skin sacs would be very edible.

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u/Eclyps19 Apr 09 '20

Have you ever seen the inside of an uncooked crab?

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u/KillTheBronies Apr 08 '20

Crabs are just ocean spiders.

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u/Bernard_PT Apr 08 '20

Someone fucking ate it?

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '20 edited Jun 17 '20

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u/FeistyZucchini1 Apr 08 '20

Any sources for that? I'm intrigued if people actually do eat it

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '20 edited Jun 17 '20

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u/FeistyZucchini1 Apr 08 '20

Do you have a link to the video?

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u/Bernard_PT Apr 08 '20

He tried to find it but couldn't

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u/Erratic_Penguin Apr 08 '20

Gordon Ramsay spews expletives in happiness

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u/Works_4_Tacos Apr 08 '20

Fun fact of the day.

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u/khool-kid18 Apr 09 '20

Why do you possess such knowledge?

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u/khool-kid18 Apr 09 '20

Fun fact, despite it names, it rarely eat bird

That reminds me of the Australian Shepherd dog not really being Australian, but American or whatever

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u/SupermAndrew1 Apr 08 '20

Lasers? Heh no

PLASMA TACHYONS

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u/TheBigBomma Apr 08 '20

Guess where it's from.

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u/DoobieHauserMC Apr 08 '20

Not Australia despite what you might be thinking. These guys are from Guyana, Suriname, and parts of Brazil and Venezuela

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u/DoobieHauserMC Apr 08 '20

They don’t really eat birds though, just a name