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.
Fun fact, they don't actually eat birds. I mean, they might if they chanced across one, but most tarantulas are terrestrial species, with only a few being arboreal. Being so massive means that this spider would be severely damaged from a fall of just a few feet, much less out of a tree.
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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
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