Author: Jeremy Rehm / Source: Science News
Rudolf von May has seen some pretty wild things in Peru’s Amazon rainforest.
But this took things to a whole new level. There, caught on a team member’s cell phone video, was a giant tarantula, about the size of a dinner plate, weeble-wobbling through the leaf litter with the body of what was later identified as a mouse opossum hanging from its fangs.“It was very surprising, to some extent shocking,” says von May, an ecologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, of the first-ever recording of such an encounter. “It’s very rare to see mammals being preyed upon by a large spider.”
Along with his colleagues, von…
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