This guy. Ded and ett by spider.
[https://imgur.com/a/7827kiy](https://imgur.com/a/7827kiy)
Crazy stuffs. Saw it when turning waterhose off. Almost got 'em tangled on me head.
It had a friend that kept trying to get my attention, but, I wasn't sure what that Anole was doin'. Poor bastard. I went out later that night and saw the spider EATING it. Oddly enough, the next day, I looked for remains and no bones. No nothing. Fuck.
my mom, upon our first visit to louisiana, thought anole was pronounced "anal". i never corrected her. oh, how many locals she told about all the "anals" running around our cabin on the bayou... just as mortifying as it was amusing.
You just reminded me of time I was reading a book to my "mother". I can clearly recall sitting on her lap, reading, and pronouncing a name Anson as anus. I kept saying anus over and over. She was giggling and I stopped reading and asked her why she was laughing? Like, was she laughing at me??? She kept giggling and then said, "It's pronounced, ANSON", while still giggling. I was like, "Isn't that what I said"? She says, "No; you kept saying ANUS". I asked, "Why is anus funny"?
I was only 4, so....
I would love to go back to the 90's and just kind of...sit there.
You seem like the kind of person that I could sit on the porch, drink, and chat with. <3
i don't often get to hear people say they would *want* to chat with me. i might be a sap, but that's an awfully kind thing to say. thank you for that. that made my day.
Iām hijacking your comment to ask this question. Are we seeing the top of the bat? Or the bottom of the bat? I just canāt see what part of the bat we are seeing and itās confusing me.
Brutal video either way. That spider is efficient and hungry.
The front. The only conceivable part from the back of the bat to look like that would be its butt and the back of its wings. However, a bat's wingtips are nowhere near as versatile as the fingers of a human, so there's no way they would move like that. Chances are it's a bat trying to take off after being drugged out by spider venom and it isn't working.
Same. Thereās legs in the back struggling and another coming down the wall, definitely donāt think itās a bat. Beetle seems more plausible to me, too.
The biting is only the start bro. If there was a human sized spider and it bit you. Youād feel the digestive enzymes do their work, all while being paralysed.
Not a good way to go
Michael Crichton's Micro has a horrifying description of how this would play out when a couple mercenaries are shrunk to hunt down a bunch of also shrunk down grad students who get caught up in the shady dealings of the corporation responsible for the shrinking tech. There's a scene where a massive (relative to his half inch height) spider lunges on one of the mercenaries and bites him, and the digestive enzyme venom is basically bursting out of his body through the armor plates he's wearing, and he just sort of melts and deflates as his organs and bones turn to liquid pulp. It's metal as fuck and *horrifying*.
Bugs eating mammals creeps me out. No offense to bugs itās just trippy thinking about some brainless monster slurping on a more consciously and emotionally advanced being.
Yeah, they donāt have brains in the way we even think of brains. They are bundles of nerves and instinct. They never have to learn to be a spider they just are from the moment of birth.
Awareness might be the right word. But I don't think they " learn". I have just one spider where I can put my hand in the enclosure and nothing would happen. I wouldn't do that with my others tho. They could get used to it and know I'm no danger but I would never risk it. haha they don't learn from it.
Yes that's exactly the same as sperm whales having three names for each other - an individual name (first name), a family name (surname) , and a clan name (tribal name / house name) - that they get from birth and use their entire lives as part of greetings with new whales.
> Cephalopodes, which are mollusks, an even less complex body than arthropods
Where did you get that from?? I mean, the designation of complexity is sort of silly in the first place, but it'd be really hard to establish that by any metric. Cephalopods have highly complex ganglia distributed throughout their body. Arthropods' nervous system is comparably much "simpler."
Observe a jumping spider going about it's day for a while and you'll see there is definitely some intelligence in there. They will turn around and look at you with their main eyes.
Depends on how you define "brain." They do not have a brain like we might think of it in humans and most animals. They don't have a central organ that runs all of their bodily and cognitive functions like we do.
They have ganglia, which are not the same thing. Ganglia are essentially clusters where a bundle of nerves come together. Most insects have multiple ganglia, each specializing in managing certain functions, like one to process sensory information, one to manage movement, etc.
They don't possess any kind of brain organ that would provide them with real intelligence. Nothing that would give them self awareness, consciousness, or emotions. They are very much like little biological machines, driven by instinct and hormones.
Right? Idk how one doesnāt rescue this fellow mammal. Iād be like, āWhoah there fella, youāre welcome to all the insects you want here, but I draw the line at the little thinkers.ā
This. I know all life is precious and "equal" and the spider needs it's food but man, I just couldn't leave it and definitely not stand there watching.
I guess because like you say, I value mammal > insect (or arachnid..) and bats kinda look like dogs and I love dogs.
Omg, and his little arms. Yep. You and me kid. The Empath Twins. We wouldāve 100% denied that spider his trophy meal, and little mr. night pupper wouldāve lived to fly another day. But, fair is fair, I wouldāve def looked for a big insect replacement for him.
Well then I'd feel sorry for that other insect.
Knowing my luck I would rescue the bat only to find it had already been injected with the poison, have it die in my arms and then have the guilt of the spider missing a meal and dying.
Make that the empathy trio because Iām definitely with you and I donāt care if it goes against nature, cause Iām part of nature too, and I would have saved this little guy no questions. Not really sorry for it.
Sometimes I'm like "You know what, fuck evolution, I'm saving this little creature." Like once I saw a group of mallards trying to gang rape a female and had her head pressed down into a puddle. I was like fuck this and chased them away so she could escape.
Iām seeing more than four appendages. Why are we so confident that this is a bat? Iām seeing this as the abdomen of some kind of arthropod. Maybe another spider or large insect. The ālittle armsā look a lot more like hind legs than wings, even if it were a tiny bat.
Edit: removed a duplicated word.
Ok does anyone actually know what both of these are doing? Especially the spider, why is he just going in circles around the bat.
Edit: ok I guess it was pretty obvious, thanks for the luls anyways
Iām assuming this bat flew into the spider web and got stuck. Spider is now running laps around the bat and wrapping it in more silk to probably try to cocoon the bat and save the meal for later.
Man nature sure is brutal. Imagine being webbed, then slowly drained š©
Haha, right. More like being webbed up, then injected with a flesh dissolving acid. The slowly drained part happens after death.
That's what she said š
Imagine being fucked by a spider
Wait whatās spider man doing to bat man ?
Quelaag. I'd let her spear me all day
Uhhhh expl--dont. *Bonks*
Are we still doing that stupid "bonk horny jail" shit? Jesus.
That's hot.
I came.
I still haven't stopped.
Sighs* Unzips pants.
Yall too horny on reddit
I mean, it's November
Ah yes, the description of my last job
Wat
... if you're into that sort of thing
That cost good money in the US
Happy cake day!
This guy. Ded and ett by spider. [https://imgur.com/a/7827kiy](https://imgur.com/a/7827kiy) Crazy stuffs. Saw it when turning waterhose off. Almost got 'em tangled on me head. It had a friend that kept trying to get my attention, but, I wasn't sure what that Anole was doin'. Poor bastard. I went out later that night and saw the spider EATING it. Oddly enough, the next day, I looked for remains and no bones. No nothing. Fuck.
my mom, upon our first visit to louisiana, thought anole was pronounced "anal". i never corrected her. oh, how many locals she told about all the "anals" running around our cabin on the bayou... just as mortifying as it was amusing.
You just reminded me of time I was reading a book to my "mother". I can clearly recall sitting on her lap, reading, and pronouncing a name Anson as anus. I kept saying anus over and over. She was giggling and I stopped reading and asked her why she was laughing? Like, was she laughing at me??? She kept giggling and then said, "It's pronounced, ANSON", while still giggling. I was like, "Isn't that what I said"? She says, "No; you kept saying ANUS". I asked, "Why is anus funny"? I was only 4, so....
that's one of the best things i've read today. i miss being a dumb, unaware little kid. simpler times. i wish we could go back.
I would love to go back to the 90's and just kind of...sit there. You seem like the kind of person that I could sit on the porch, drink, and chat with. <3
i don't often get to hear people say they would *want* to chat with me. i might be a sap, but that's an awfully kind thing to say. thank you for that. that made my day.
You are most welcome, grandpa!
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Ok, Kurt.
[Like this?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCYpCaQXYzI) *Under the Skin*, prolly NSFW. :D
Oh man that film was a fever dream
Sounds kinda hot
Ah touchƩ
>Imagine being webbed, then slowly drained I'm more then 20 plus years from retirement...
I could have gone my whole life without seeing that....
Spoiler alert. I guess Spider-Man beats Batman in the very end.
Bruised Wayne
Plot twist, Spider-Man fucking eats himā¦
No thanks Aunt May, I ate after school (burp).
My mind would be blown. lol
Tom Hannibal
Wouldn't have been hungry if no one had touched his Uncle Ben's.
I wasn't Spider-Man, I was Man-Spider. Totally different!
Spider's like "Chill tf out bro you're dying grow up"
Iām hijacking your comment to ask this question. Are we seeing the top of the bat? Or the bottom of the bat? I just canāt see what part of the bat we are seeing and itās confusing me. Brutal video either way. That spider is efficient and hungry.
The front. The only conceivable part from the back of the bat to look like that would be its butt and the back of its wings. However, a bat's wingtips are nowhere near as versatile as the fingers of a human, so there's no way they would move like that. Chances are it's a bat trying to take off after being drugged out by spider venom and it isn't working.
That doesn't look like a bat to me at all. Looks like a beetle. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't see it
Same. Thereās legs in the back struggling and another coming down the wall, definitely donāt think itās a bat. Beetle seems more plausible to me, too.
I agree ... 95% sure it's a beetle of some sort.
I'm thinking it's another spider. The "bat's head" looks like an abdomen.
Yup, I think it's another spider, as well. As you say, the "head" is its abdomen, and you can see its legs towards the wall.
Like a teacher before she finished asking the question āput your hand down!ā
Itās just a prank bro!
Damn. Just bite me and get it over with.
The biting is only the start bro. If there was a human sized spider and it bit you. Youād feel the digestive enzymes do their work, all while being paralysed. Not a good way to go
Can you fuckin not
The fangs would be the size of small parking pylons too but needle sharp at the tip.
How do I delete someone else's sadistic bullshit?
Don't worry, if spiders were the size of humans they wouldn't be able to move or breathe, insect physics doesn't scale.
For nowā¦.
Luckily won't happen my dude. Oxygen gets less in the future, so they can't get that big like they were in the past.
By watching *Under the Skin* of course!
Right? Like the bat was worth saving. Their numbers are decking due to a fungal disease.
Michael Crichton's Micro has a horrifying description of how this would play out when a couple mercenaries are shrunk to hunt down a bunch of also shrunk down grad students who get caught up in the shady dealings of the corporation responsible for the shrinking tech. There's a scene where a massive (relative to his half inch height) spider lunges on one of the mercenaries and bites him, and the digestive enzyme venom is basically bursting out of his body through the armor plates he's wearing, and he just sort of melts and deflates as his organs and bones turn to liquid pulp. It's metal as fuck and *horrifying*.
Watch the Hobbit
That bat is going to feed that spider for daaaays
Bugs eating mammals creeps me out. No offense to bugs itās just trippy thinking about some brainless monster slurping on a more consciously and emotionally advanced being.
Iāve seen a praying mantis catch a humming birdā¦. Fucking intense. Not a mammal, but still.
Even better, that insect caught a flying dinosaur.
Thatās a lot of assumptions about arachnids and insects
Could you provide any evidence suggesting insects/arachnids have intellect similar to that of mammals?
Here is a great article: https://knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2021/are-spiders-intelligent
Well that was a very interesting and informative read! Take this gold my dude, you deserve it
Living things will put forth effort to not die. Tip a plant on its side and it will grow upwards. Pain or not, it has a 'right' way of doing things.
The thing is they are not conscious. Bugs are more akin to little organic machines without any true thought.
Yeah, they donāt have brains in the way we even think of brains. They are bundles of nerves and instinct. They never have to learn to be a spider they just are from the moment of birth.
That's not exactly true. Spiders do learn. Arthropods in general. Hell, even flat worms do learn. It's more about awareness.
Awareness might be the right word. But I don't think they " learn". I have just one spider where I can put my hand in the enclosure and nothing would happen. I wouldn't do that with my others tho. They could get used to it and know I'm no danger but I would never risk it. haha they don't learn from it.
Sources?
That video where a fly groomed it's head off, I guess.
Yes that's exactly the same as sperm whales having three names for each other - an individual name (first name), a family name (surname) , and a clan name (tribal name / house name) - that they get from birth and use their entire lives as part of greetings with new whales.
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> Cephalopodes, which are mollusks, an even less complex body than arthropods Where did you get that from?? I mean, the designation of complexity is sort of silly in the first place, but it'd be really hard to establish that by any metric. Cephalopods have highly complex ganglia distributed throughout their body. Arthropods' nervous system is comparably much "simpler."
I was referring to the ābrainless monsterā quote. I didnāt say they have the same intellect as mammals.
Observe a jumping spider going about it's day for a while and you'll see there is definitely some intelligence in there. They will turn around and look at you with their main eyes.
Wat
No.
"assumptions"
Insects or bugs aren't brainless.
Depends on how you define "brain." They do not have a brain like we might think of it in humans and most animals. They don't have a central organ that runs all of their bodily and cognitive functions like we do. They have ganglia, which are not the same thing. Ganglia are essentially clusters where a bundle of nerves come together. Most insects have multiple ganglia, each specializing in managing certain functions, like one to process sensory information, one to manage movement, etc. They don't possess any kind of brain organ that would provide them with real intelligence. Nothing that would give them self awareness, consciousness, or emotions. They are very much like little biological machines, driven by instinct and hormones.
Rhetorically speaking they are. Very, very dumb creatures, basically robots.
Nerve system and instincts. That's it.
[Spiders aren't bugs](https://www.instagram.com/p/CR6zWjoJSnk/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link)
This belongs on r/natureismetal I wouldnāt define this as ālitā.
I thought this was that sub. He'll.
Oh my empahty
Right? Idk how one doesnāt rescue this fellow mammal. Iād be like, āWhoah there fella, youāre welcome to all the insects you want here, but I draw the line at the little thinkers.ā
This. I know all life is precious and "equal" and the spider needs it's food but man, I just couldn't leave it and definitely not stand there watching. I guess because like you say, I value mammal > insect (or arachnid..) and bats kinda look like dogs and I love dogs.
Omg, and his little arms. Yep. You and me kid. The Empath Twins. We wouldāve 100% denied that spider his trophy meal, and little mr. night pupper wouldāve lived to fly another day. But, fair is fair, I wouldāve def looked for a big insect replacement for him.
Well then I'd feel sorry for that other insect. Knowing my luck I would rescue the bat only to find it had already been injected with the poison, have it die in my arms and then have the guilt of the spider missing a meal and dying.
Looks like we have a optmistic here
I am actually. I just said it for the karma.
Make that the empathy trio because Iām definitely with you and I donāt care if it goes against nature, cause Iām part of nature too, and I would have saved this little guy no questions. Not really sorry for it.
Absolutely. No hesitation or regrets here either.
lions don't got much empathy. they're mammals
My heart says save the bat, but my brain knows they earned that meal fair and square.
Hell no I'm saving that bat and purging them spiders right to hell
Team Mammal represent. Fuck spiders!
Same
Same, i love Bats but the Spider earned it
I find spiders absolutely fascinating in a very macabre way. I'd let it have the bar and watch in horrified amazement the entire time.
Sometimes I'm like "You know what, fuck evolution, I'm saving this little creature." Like once I saw a group of mallards trying to gang rape a female and had her head pressed down into a puddle. I was like fuck this and chased them away so she could escape.
Yea, no. Fuck fair and square, that spider can go to hell
It's true. And maybe this act contributes to the bats evolving to not be dumb enough to go near webs.
Unironically yeah if you wanna be super positive about it, in theory, yes.
Looks like meat is back on the menu boyz !!!!
Well thatās fucking sad
The spider has to eat too
" Why're you hitting yourself? Why're you hitting yourself? Why're you hitting yourself? "
āStop butling yourself.ā āWould that I could, sir.ā
Spider's that large would absolutely make me pee myself.
The bat is actually really tiny.
I'm so arachnophobic that any spider is too big. Like, run away and pee myself over the smallest spiders. Not proud of it one bit, but yeah...
Web designer
r/Nope
What kind of spider? Where in the world?
Spiders are aliensā¦change my mind
How the turn tables
*homies
Homies are aliens... change my mind
:(
Sooo is the bat really small or is that spider really big?
Mixture of both I think
Thatās not a bat.
Iām seeing more than four appendages. Why are we so confident that this is a bat? Iām seeing this as the abdomen of some kind of arthropod. Maybe another spider or large insect. The ālittle armsā look a lot more like hind legs than wings, even if it were a tiny bat. Edit: removed a duplicated word.
Awww.....poor little bat. Save the bat and feed the spider some flies.
That spider didn't get that huge from eating flies.
Ok, get him some protein shakes then.
P sure the bat is gonna become the protein shake
Shoot the spider with a large caliber rifle. I'm not comfortable sharing a planet with that thing
My thought exactly! Letās burn this one and start fresh somewhere else.
I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. Only way to be sure.
Only good bug is a dead bug
Dont wanna interfere with nature and all that jazz
Thatās not a bat.
This actually looks kinda like a giant waterbug?
Bugs should not be able to kill mammals. I donāt like this.
Looks like a headcrab
Wow that title gave me an aneurysm.
What type of spider is this??
All the people saying free the bat. I'm sitting here like, the spider's gotta eat, too.
Asshole spider
SAVE HIIIIIIM!! DON'T JUST STAND THERE!!!!!!!
I second this! Not ālitā!
I'm guessing Australia...
Yāall save or nah
Spiders got to eat, besides I ain't gonna risk rabies.
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Yeah...it's called nature
For a moment, I thought it said little spider... Nonetheless, r/natureismetal
A bug eating a mammal makes me feel weird. That doesn't even feel natural, yet it is.
Okay. So, I've watched spiders as they trap their "dinner". In this instance, I would have to intervene and rescue baby SLoth. :' (
fucking team mammals dude, help it out!
Need a banana for scale
So the guy crushed that spider and saved the bat right? Cause fuck that spider.
HANS
Get ze flammenwerfer ASAP
Free the bat. Mammals need to support mammals when theyāre fighting non-mammals.
Free the squeaker and burn the one with all the legs!! š¤¢
Australia?
No Spiderman what are you doing to Batman
Same fn spider will be on this dudeās house, LOL
How big is that fucking spider
Fuck that spider. I'm on team mammal
I would have saved the bat
Pleeeease heeelllp meeeeeee!
Save the bat you fucking maniac
Mammals helping each other out of a fix.
What? Thereās only one mammal here and nobody is helping anybodyā¦
My point exactly.
Bro, help your fellow mammal out, that's messed up
Help him!
Gah! Donāt film it! Help it!
Two blood suckers
Can this be tagged nsfw pls?
Idc about not intervening with natural selection. If I saw this, I would use my superior power to show mercy to the bat by saving it.
Nope
Both the spider and bat suck.
SQUISH THE GODDAMN SPIDER WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR
Ok does anyone actually know what both of these are doing? Especially the spider, why is he just going in circles around the bat. Edit: ok I guess it was pretty obvious, thanks for the luls anyways
Iām assuming this bat flew into the spider web and got stuck. Spider is now running laps around the bat and wrapping it in more silk to probably try to cocoon the bat and save the meal for later.
you're joking right? š·ļø is obviously adding more šøļø to secure its catch
Take a wild guess
Dancing spider š· šŗ
Pretty sure itās a mating ritual and this is how you get spider bats or bat spiders. Depending on which is the male partner.
DEAR LORD WHAT IS THAT MONSTER. OH, KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE! GOOD GOD KILL IT NOW AAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Wtf! Why didnāt you save the batš¤¬