They caught the moment when a giant spider devours an opossum

March 1, 2019

"It affected us, we really could not believe what we were seeing," said one of the researchers who observed the images in the tropical regions of Peru.

Video: National Geographic Spanish

A study conducted by a group of researchers showed images of how Large spiders devour all kinds of smaller animals in the tropics of Peru.

The shocking ones that have been announced are really shocking and scary: in them you can see a great tarantula eating an opossum.

This is not the first time that large spiders have ruthlessly devoured rodents, tadpoles, snakes or lizards. The study's director, Rudolf von May, a biologist at the University of Michigan, said that many vertebrates are spider-stricken. "Mortality in amphibians and reptiles is generally not high," he said.

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In this region of Peru, tarantulas move with such perfection that amazes, and there was this biologist with his research team. The images correspond to Spanish National Geographic.

"At night, they are everywhere, on the leaves, on the branches, on the ground, but from time to time we see them with a frog or a lizard," he said in the magazine where he found himself. study was published, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation.

Although in many of the pictures they collected, they could see huge spiders feeding on their prey, they were really surprised at what happened that night between the tarantula and the possum.

The co-author of the study, Michael Grundler, explained in National Geographic: "He was still fighting for his life, but after 30 seconds he stopped kicking, it shocked us, we really could not believe what we were seeing."