in a creepy realm beyond our everyday
life
eight legged freaks rule
they thrive in the tropical jungle the
desert wastelands and even underwater
some deliverance giants that rise from
the path
others are equipped with an awesome of
weapons
there are accomplished pepper plants
website- some walk on water and even
feeling and deep in the Amazon lives a
Goliath that overshadows them all
the biggest spider on the face of the
planet
these are nature's incredible spiders
Iraq needs across the globe have evolved
unique ways of surviving the most
extreme environments the Kalahari Desert
is one such place
only the toughest creatures make it here
the son of huge for some spider is like
nothing you've seen before
it's a hunter a tracker and a killer all
rolled into one
long sensitive has detect the slightest
movement in the air from potential prey
while strange sensory cups on its
underside press against the ground like
10 years to pick up my new vibrations
its enormous chainsaw like mandibles can
crash an armor-plated scorpion
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but it's the sticky finger tips and make
it really impressive
the tip of each front appendage is
unique
this has suction device uses pressure to
catch and hold on to pray once it
snatches with these suckers little
escapes
the sony futures seldom seen out in the
day but it's the dry season and this
predator must risk the heat to find food
it can be a highly mobile hunter but it
can also set the ultimate ambush
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its legs stick like glue
the Sun huge needs to make the most of
this grasshopper buffet
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it's a brutal technique not pretty
but it works
the prey is doomed time for its enormous
jaws to kick into action like a
hydraulic mincer telling the prey into
digestible mush
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with its belly now full the Sun huge
must escape the blistering heat now
it reveals another use for its monstrous
jaws
it lifts 50 times its body weight in
sand to excavate tomorrow
finally out of the heat the soul fuge
will hide from the sun until nightfall
when the hunting begins again for every
price species that exists as a spider
that specially built acted was so future
sticky feet to snatches pray out of the
air another incredible spider uses a
wildly different technique deep in this
forest
it's a small but deadly hunter the
jumping spider is an agile predator most
species been a web to catch prey but
this predator has a more direct approach
it's jumping ability and its eyesight
sets it apart
it's capable of jumping 30 times its own
body length that's the equivalent of a
human jumping over half the length of a
football field
it's so powerful that like a bungee
jumper it needs to lay a safety line to
stop it from overshooting its mind by
contracting muscles fluid is pushed into
the spiders legs like hydraulic piston
the change in pressure causes the next
to extend rapidly clicking the spider
into the this hungry female is on the
prowl to keep track of her fast-moving
prey the jumping spiders eight eyes are
optimized finding her enormous
forward-facing paired judge distance
while his side and rear eyes see
movement giving her 360-degree vision
the dead gecko is attracting flies
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the drones try to scare her off she's
not budging
sometimes things just don't go according
to plan
she's so small the breeze is blowing her
of course she was recalculate wind
direction and distance a dagger like
fangs look into the fly while a
quick-acting venom gets to work
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spiders specialized hunters filling
every neesh in almost all environments
some may pounce on their prey like the
person the next one uses a throw net to
snack pray this strange-looking spider
is a sight to behold
its enormous forward-facing eyes and
skin limbs make it look like a living
breathing skeleton it has eyes like an
owl for good reason this predator will
only hunt in the dead of night
this female find a low-hanging twig come
from should use a web to catch prey but
not the traditional gtc strands of silk
into a bully texture and weaves a net of
highly elastic non sticky silk she
station herself 10 centimeters above the
ground above passing insects
she'll use the web as a net to sling
over victims that scuttle below
its pitch dark so she taps her legs on
the forest floor to measure the exact
distance to the prey
then she stretches the web to three
times its relaxed sighs the wide as she
pulls the elastic threads the more
entangled to pray for the come
the elastic silk tightens around the
cricket
the more it struggles more entangled
becomes venomous strikes finally
paralyzed it
this cricket is taken care of so the net
caster leaves to continue light of
hunting
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thanks to drifting landmasses and oceans
wins spiders have dominated every
continent except Antarctica
but they don't only live in forests and
deserts
the incredible fishing spider thrives on
water
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this spiky legged spider is the resident
predator terror of fish ponds around the
globe its many eyes Harry mouthparts and
huge fans may be impressive but it's the
legs that are truly amazing this Iraq
mid not only walked on water it can read
the underwater world with its legs tiny
spikes detect vibrations on the water's
surface it can accurately judge where
the movement is coming from and even
what prey item is causing it
a male lives in this section of the pond
and it's full of food his back legs
anger him to the shore while his super
sensory feet get to work
every little vibration is assessed
the fish was just out of reach
walking on water is one thing but this
incredible spider can also breathe
underwater the heads around the spiders
abdomen created their bubble its lines
would like the stack pages of a book and
draw oxygen from the bubble this
incredible temptation allows the fishing
spider to breathe underwater
the fish have been scared off and now
they're in the shadows
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the fishing spider injects paralyzing
venom into the fish which slowly times
its insides into a nutritious soup
this prize catch we'll keep him
satisfied for a day
spiders are not only efficient predators
they're also among nature's most
talented architects whether it's burrows
webs or nets constructing high-tech
hunting devices is the name of the game
and few can rival the phenomenal we're
building abilities of the golden or a
common resident in tropical areas across
the globe the golden orb leaving spider
has spent over 160 million years
affecting its architectural skills
it's long legs with inward pointing tips
responsible for weaving gigantic silk
traps the gram for gram is stronger than
steel
they're so strong that even small birds
and bats have been caught in them the
glittering golden silk is what attracts
prey
it's one of the natural world's most
impressive structures and its maker is
not equipped with just one still
producing gland but seven each gland
produces its own unique silk
they make tough silk protect the eggs a
soft silk to wrap out their prey and
they can even reduce the cabling silk
for structural support however was truly
fascinating is how this silk is produced
it stored as a liquid in each gland as
the spider contracts muscles it forces
the liquid silk out through hundreds of
tanks tubes the muscular force turns to
liquid into a solid silk strand
these individual strands twist and
packed together to produce one super
strong Claude the female builds the
entire web on her own
while a potential mate hangs around to
take advantage of any leftovers caught
in a trap
30 10 times smaller than half he was
tread very carefully the tips of her
legs are connected to the strands that
radiate in eight different directions
through vibration she has a 360 degree
radar over her entire web
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the grasshoppers paralyzed with venom
and wrapped alive and soft preserving
silk
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she has each parcel of the center of the
web with strong cementing silver
this mail will stay fresh for hours and
it's to Mike casing one by one the
spider wraps a prior life in their gold
coffins while the male hands on for the
ride
the golden orbs complex web delivers
every time and an afternoon of feasting
await spiders have colonized a diverse
array of ecosystems around the planet
with only the sky and sea still out of
their reach one incredible spider has
ignored all the rules it spends its
entire life submerged
the diving bell spider is the only
arachnid known to live exclusively under
water
it has no fins or gills it doesn't need
them
it builds its very own submarine a
supply this bubble is its lifeline it's
homemade scuba tank to construct the
bubble this male swims to the surface
and pops its abdomen into the like the
fishing spider the air bubble around his
abdomen allows him to breathe through
his book songs the spider shuttles
several bubbles from the surface to
create a large reservoir it's an
ingenious way to access a whole new
hunting ground which it now has all to
itself
this is despite a century
well feed rest
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this collection of incredible spiders is
full of surprising characters the diving
bell spider lives underwater while the
son of huge has sticky feet
but a bigger predator comes from a
secret lair belief the Africa
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this enormous erected as a leg span of
over 10 centimeters and lives in an
underground burrow for most of its life
it's shy and secretive by nature with
the baboon spider has a dark side
it gets its name from its enormous size
its hairy body and the boom like pads
the end of each leg
and its many eyes operate like a
built-in periscope surveying the
surroundings of its burrow
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what prey doesn't know is that its
secret hideout is wired for surveillance
when it's not hungry spider spins a
sealed the entrance to its land this
prevents falling prey from disturbing
her beauty sleep but when it's time to
eat the borough becomes a high-tech
booby trap
the entrance is lined with strands of
silk to travel to the boro liked Rick
wise
we're moving insect triggers the wires
vibrations are sent down the borough
alerting the spider to a possible meal
she can distinguish between the
vibrations of a pesky and and a meaty
cricket
why has been triggered
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it's time to feed
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the baboon spider is a calculating
predator
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another trip wire has been triggered and
the opportunistic hunter returns to the
surface
many legs give off many vibrations
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from straight out of the ground the
centipede meets a greater predator
over 30 centimeters below the surface
the baboon returns to its solitary
confinement to feast on its prey alive
Rapids come in a variety of shapes and
sizes that big and hairy small and
colorful and some completely camouflaged
but none look quite as strange as the
web spider flat body allowed to call
into dark marks and crannies and its
pincers can grow to twice the length of
its body and a tipped with moving like
claws
the web spider doesn't have benim so
when it finds its prey it grabs it with
its princes and simply impales it
this female doesn't just have to feed
herself she's got 60 newly hatched young
that hanging on for the bride the mini
whip spiders will live on her back until
they develop their very own exoskeletons
and pincers to feed themselves
after their first molt the green sprouts
tiny to fully formed arachnids equipped
to take on the dark corners of the
insect world some environment so
incredibly harsh and spiders one species
is a desert specialists able to make a
living in the oldest desert on earth
the golden wheel spider looks a lot like
many others but is this one that has a
unique acrobatic talent
in the ancient Namibian desert it must
deal with total exposure a borrow
beneath the boiling sand is its best
chance of survival
the silk-lined bunker will extend over
30 centimeters down and protect the
spider from the harsh desert sun but
it's not just the heat the spiders
escaping from this pump Inlet wasp is on
the hunt for a golden wheels spider it
doesn't want to pray on it it wants to
lay a single egg inside
this way when it's lava hatches it will
have a fresh dinner to feast on the
spider puts the finishing touches on its
head out just in time
the wasp since this movement
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the wasp only needs to sting him
the spider makes his getaway reveals his
trump card
by folding its legs into spokes the
spider turns into a wheel and rolls down
the dune at 20 times a second leaving
the wasp in the dust
this cover reputation is given the
golden wheel spider a helping hand in
its desert environment but it's not
going to test its locked out in the open
no spider is at the top of the food
chain but even so they are considered
one of the most successful predators on
the planet the next incredible hunter is
a nighttime specialist
all the disappearing during the day
deep in the forest lives the
strange-looking bark spider it's
practically invisible only coming alive
in the midnight hours this female looks
like just another knob on this branch
her mate is a fraction of her size like
the golden orb spider he's a loyal but
wary companion when the Sun dips she
begins spinning a deadly spiral trap
like an old lady with a knitting needles
she furiously weaves a web of sticky
cables spider silk is the strongest
natural material on the planet and the
Darwin's bark spider in Madagascar is
responsible for building the largest
toughest web of any spider on earth the
bark spider stations herself at the
center of the web
she too sees the world through
vibrations
when the hunting's over the box spider
kids are all traces of her presence the
looming summarize quickens her efforts
after her night shift the pair blends
seamlessly into the branch we energizing
themselves before the next night of
hunting thanks to the scary appearance
and predatory nature spiders are a
symbol of evil in danger in almost every
country across the globe in reality very
few spiders are a threat to humans and
bites a seldom fatal but one of the few
that you may want to get out of the way
for is none other than the Black Widow
this infamous spider has conquered
almost every continent
it is named after her tendency to kill
and eat her partner after meeting
she's equipped with a lethal Europe
toxic venom and a threatening red
hourglass on her abdomen is a trademark
of danger
the black widows venom is thought to be
15 times more potent than some
rattlesnakes species because she injects
less of it
humans can survive her right and it's no
wonder she had the reputation of a femme
fatale towel the female black widow
comes with much larger fangs and venom
glands than the male
this female hasn't eaten for weeks
she's had other things on her mind she's
just late hundreds of eggs inside and
incubated silk sack soon hundreds of
miniature spiders will enter the world
to continue the Black Widow never see
with her most important job complete
it's time to eat
she restrains the cricket with silk
before paralyzing it with venom cells
lining her venom glands produce a potent
neurotoxic venom these cells
disintegrate to release a toxic
concoction into the planned when the
widow's strikes muscles around the gland
contract to force the venom out through
hollow fangs the venom shots down the
crickets nervous system actually doesn't
eat her praise straightaway she stores
it letting the venoms additional
digestive enzymes get to work while she
continues to hunt
when it comes to females
there's a lot of competition in the
animal kingdom and males have to do
something extra special to get noticed
the spider world is no different
the Black Widow male may get killed for
doing what he's supposed to but in
Australia another tiny mail is walking
the tightrope with his sundance
out of the sandy earth emerges spider so
small that eight of them could fit your
thumbnail the peacock spider is a type
of jumping spider with a twist these
bachelors are on the search for females
and it leads them into enemy territory
there's only one female here so once
they've sized each other up it's time to
fight once the competition's been scared
off the hard work begins
approaching a single lady is a risky
business
she'll attack the intruding mail if
she's not in the mood to mate
so the male peacock spider has had to
take his courtship efforts up a notch
he resorts to dance moves
electric colors mesmerized the female
this is the spider world's very own bird
of paradise
the dance seems to have worked when it
comes to peacock spider romance or it
takes to secure a female a good dance
moves the peacock spiders size might
betray its feisty character but on the
opposite end of the earth a true giant
makes up for it the biggest spider on
the planet is both enormous and deadly
the Goliath bird-eating tarantula lives
in Venezuela's remote Emerson and is as
big as your dinner plate
this behemoth is the subject of myth and
legend with only a few having ever been
seen wild
the Goliath is a feared spider for good
reason
it has a leg span of almost 30
centimeters and weighs 170 grams it's so
big and feasts on mice and even birds
like the jumping spider the Goliath is
an ambush hunter so it lays low in dark
corners but out in the jungle even this
giant has enemies the Goliath isn't
going to take a chance with this rodent
and its best form of defense is attack
when provoked the Goliath brushes his
abdomen releasing thousands of hair like
bristles into the and thousands of many
harpoons flight was the attacker each
menacing bristle sharply pointed with
hooked bobs on one end
the bristles hook into the enemy's flesh
causing severe pain and itching
with the threat warned off the Goliath
can get back to hunting when the day
draws to an end to the jungle comes
alive and almost everything is on the
goliaths menu
its eyes are small and equipped for
night time hunting so it relies on its
most fine-tune sense of touch
just ahead is a gecko the reptile seems
unaware that it's just centimetres away
from the world's biggest spider
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as the glides enormous fangs sink into
the gecko paralyzing venom is injected
into its bloodstream
very quickly the geckos organs shut down
and the venoms enzymes start digesting
it from the inside out our planet
spiders come with many weird and
wonderful adaptations from here shooting
and walking on water to disco dancing
and throwing webs from the Giants and
jumpers to the cart wheelers and hunters
these eight legged 8 i'd creatures
fulfill a critical role in our ecosystem
over means of years they've proved
they're not only able to survive Earth's
buried in extreme environments but
thriving they may have a bad reputation
but the planet wouldn't be the same
without incredible spiderus
