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National Geographic - Poisonous Spider (Sydney Funnel Web)

submitted by Zonbie

1 decade 6 years 4 months 3 weeks ago

Scary stuff, this spider has a bite strong enough to break through a human toe nail, it then repeatedly bites, and you have to pull the spider physically off you, then you have a very very short time to be treated otherwise you're dead.

National Geographic presents - The Sydney Funnel Web Spider

9 Comments

Oh pfft... we keep these as pets.

Ok, no... we don't, they're a damn scary spider. We really do have more than our fair share of deadly things down here, but we all seem to get along ok

Thanks Zonbie. I was looking for a way to stay up for the next four days.

coolhund says...

Its offical. I will never go to australia!

why would anyone volunteer to get bit by one of those, even for National Geographic, unless that was CGI lol.. they could of just used a hotdog

*promote spiders that bite toes
nom nom nom

Self promoting this video back to the front page; last published Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 9:25pm PDT - promote requested by original submitter Zonbie.

No wonder Peter Jackson chose a funnel spider as the basis for how Shelob would look and act in The Return of the King. That thing is just freaky.

>> ^zomgunicorns:
why would anyone volunteer to get bit by one of those, even for National Geographic, unless that was CGI lol.. they could of just used a hotdog

It's not cgi, have a look at the toe, it's a very fake foot.

When did National Geographic become so sensationalist?

Pretty interesting though.

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