Imagine the most elegant of dinner party parties . The meal : a land snake . Your Edgar Guest : a tarantula . No silverware necessary , as your dining partner has bring its digestive juice with it .
This party take place one good afternoon around 1:30PM on October 23 , 2015 , in the beautifulSerra do Caveráin far southern Brazil . A squad of scientists happened upon the meal — a 15 - inch dead Erythrolamprus almadensis snake — decomposing in its middle discussion section beneath an beetle rock . And our endearing dinner guest , the large Grammostola quirogai European wolf spider , was there atop the prey , turn the snake ’s body to goo with its out - of - trunk digestion , according to researchpublishedlast calendar month in the journal Herpetology Notes andfirst reportedby Live Science . The scientist kept the Snake River corpse .
It turns out , tarantulas eat a lot of giant things , and scientists have pressure them to exhaust snakes in captivity before . scientist have find other spiders wipe out Snake River , too , likethis examplefrom South Africa . But to the best of the study authors ’ knowledge , this is the first time someone has observed a tarantula eating a Hydra in the wilderness .
Leandro Malta Borges , the field of study ’s first author and a alumnus student from the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria in Santa Maria , Brazil , is no unknown to spotting the most horrible dinners ever conceived . I determine his name on other paper in Herpetology Notes , your number one source for open - access science articles about germ eating lounge lizard and amphibians . To the left field , you ’ll see another scenario Malta Borges had the privilege of examine : the Aglaoctenus oblongus wanderer munching on a tree frog .
And while we ’re on the subject of horrible dinner , here ’s another photo from a Herpetology Notes paper , this one of “ a distaff pisaurid spider ( Thaumasia velox ) subduing a female Dendropsophus microps , ” taken by scientist at the Universidade Estadual Paulista in Brazil back in 2012 .
Bon appétit !
[ Herpetology NotesviaLive Science ]
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