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Originally posted by Ookie
One spring afternoon I was fishing with my father in a small mountain stream. We stopped to admire a hummingbird drinking the nectar of an Easter lily. Suddenly something jumped up and snatched the bird out of the air and it and the bird hit the water. There was a small struggle and a giant (the size of a large dinner plate) spider was dragging the bird out of the water. It was then that Dad and I noticed that there were many of these spiders all around blending near perfectly with the rocks. Without saying a word to each other we picked up our poles and went home. We never spoke of it.
Originally posted by Dimitri Dzengalshlevi
I like reading this thread every now and again. I actually haven't ran into any spiders lately... In fact, they seem really rare compared to like, a decade ago when I was hunting down the big ones in my house in my adolescence. Anyways, figured you guys would probably like this video; good old fashioned Canadian knowledge network stuff
Originally posted by Krono
Thank you for your replies. I think scientist have already de-bunked this. They state that spider can't become giants (when I mean giants I don't mean 100ft tall!) due to the low oxygen levels in the air. They said if they were big, they wouldn't be able to breath in enough oxygen to survive.
So I thought to myself...how do giraffes, elephants, crocodiles, humans, well large animals breath? how are we able to breath if the oxygen levels are low?
Then why are whales and elephants and other animals more or less still the same size as their giant ancestors and so why not giant spiders as well?
Originally posted by doodles40
Originally posted by Krono
Thank you for your replies. I think scientist have already de-bunked this. They state that spider can't become giants (when I mean giants I don't mean 100ft tall!) due to the low oxygen levels in the air. They said if they were big, they wouldn't be able to breath in enough oxygen to survive.
So I thought to myself...how do giraffes, elephants, crocodiles, humans, well large animals breath? how are we able to breath if the oxygen levels are low?
Yeah I think I remember seeing something in a documentary where they think there aren't many giant species left and why a lot of species have shrunk is because of how the environment and everything has changed over the years and that it just wouldn't be able to support them