Goliath Bird-eating Spider


Goliath bird-eating spider (once Mygale blondii,now Theraphosa blondi),as illustrated by Carl Wilhelm Hahn in his Monographia Aranearum,also known as Monographie der Spinnen,in the 1820s. The goliath bird-eater is the heaviest spider in the world,and it rarely eats birds.


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Photo credit: © Science History Images / Alamy / Afripics
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