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Re: Theropod-eating spiders
Australian "bird-eating" spiders don't eat birds on a regular basis.
Rather, it is the exception.
StephanPickering@cs.com wrote:
>
> Throughout South America and Australia, in particular, are
> enormous, theropod-eating, "trap-door" arachnids of the family
> Theraphosidae Thorell 1870, in particular Avicularia avicularia
> (Linnaeus 1758), Theraphosa blondi (Latreille 1804), Selanocosmia
> crassipes (L. Koch 1874), and Xenesthis immensis (Ausserer 1875). My
> question is: has anyone done extensive work on these taxa's ecologies
> relative to the dinosaurs they eat?
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