TIL! Appreciate the somewhat scary education.
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andros_rex@lemmy.world 9 months agoThe sizes make sense - the turtle is on the smaller end and likely a juvenile, but both seem appropriately sized - the spiders can grow that big, especially if female.
I found this in a group for spider enthusiasts - these are the kinds of geeks that will look at a spider leg and get it down to class. AI is not good at generating invertebrate species specific traits yet. While this is pretty spectacular - not a daily event - these are both species that can be found in the same area, and these spiders will attack vertebrate pray.
bottleofchips@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
remon@ani.social 9 months ago
the spiders can grow that big, especially if female.
I tried to click the link, but after having to identify motorcyles and busses 5 times in a row … I have up. Maybe I’m a bot.
Good thing I have an actual book!
andros_rex@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah. My spider book was given to a middle schooler more than a year ago :(
blackbrook@mander.xyz 9 months ago
It’s not a spider preying on a vertebrate that is hard to believe, it is the lifting. Even ignoring the physics of the situation, I don’t think fishing spiders hunt that way.
People act like they’ve forgotten that there are other ways than AI to fake an.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Here’s one eating a frog.
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What specifically about the physics of the situation is making you suspicious? I’ve worked in an invertebrate lab, admittedly primarily with ants, and nothing about this raises alarm bells.
blackbrook@mander.xyz 9 months ago
I imagine the weight of that turtle to be considerably more than that frog.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Spiders routinely hold onto 100x more than their weight. Are you basing any of this on a knowledge of invertebrate biology? Ants can do similarly impressive feats.