Warning to arachnophobes and the faint of heart: This is the stuff of nightmares, so you might want to proceed with caution.
Warning to arachnophobes and the faint of heart: This is the stuff of nightmares, so you might want to proceed with caution.
A University of Michigan-led team of biologists has documented 15 rare and disturbing predator-prey interactions in the Amazon rainforest including keep-you-up-at-night images of a dinner plate-size tarantula dragging a young opossum across the forest floor.
The photos are part of a new journal article titled “Ecological interactions between arthropods and small vertebrates in a lowland Amazon rainforest.” Arthropods are invertebrate animals with segmented bodies and jointed appendages that include insects, arachnids (spiders, scorpions, mites and ticks) and crustaceans.
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Photo: A wandering spider (Ctenidae) preying on a subadult Cercosaura eigenmanni lizard. Photo by Mark Cowan, in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (amphibian-reptile-conservation.org)
