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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 27 2015, 03:06 PM (6,860 Views) | |
| Creeper | Mar 27 2015, 03:06 PM Post #1 |
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![]() ![]() Mantids have no mercy, they usually start to eat their prey before it is dead ![]() ![]() ![]() Araneamorphs really get underrated or overshadowed by Theraphosids but as you can see they are fully capable of taking vertebrates. With the aid of webbing they can actually come take prey hundreds of times their own weight. |
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| Ceratodromeus | Mar 27 2015, 03:52 PM Post #2 |
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An interesting topic! Predation on anurans, as well as toads, is a well documented phenomenon. I know of two different studies documenting such. one, of which, Predation on amphibians by spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) in the Neotropical region(Meninn et. Al (2005), I will quote sections of. Cases of predation: - Stephen's rocket frog
-Lesser tree frog
-lowland tropical bullfrog
Small frogs are easy game for small spiders, as they really have no efficient means of fighting back. I've always been intrigued by the webspinners being able to catch large vertebratal animals in their webs, quite the hefty meal for them in a lot of cases! As in this case of predation on a bat ![]() Here's a wolf spider(?) Taking a skink ![]() Another, rather small spider taking a gecko ![]() Another web builder -- couldn't tell ya the species -- this time taking a snake ![]() Here's another ![]() Here's an emperor scorpion with a snake it had killed, can't find too many instances of this occurring ![]() In regards to literature I've found on scorpion predating lizards, here's some info from Interactions between lizards (Podareis hispaniea atrata) and scorpions (Buthus occitanus) in the Columbretes Islands(Castilla 1995)
Another mantis/ bird predation event ![]() And another, from the Texas ornithological society
Even crabs are known to take vertebrates, as in this instance:
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/20021975-99990331 Unfortunately I don't have open access to that one.. Edited by Ceratodromeus, Mar 27 2015, 04:18 PM.
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| bitisgabonica | Mar 27 2015, 11:53 PM Post #3 |
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Heterotrophic Organism
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what about goliath taruntalas taking on snakes such as fer de lance? |
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| Creeper | Mar 28 2015, 01:25 AM Post #4 |
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Like this? There was a nice video of a B. vagans carrying off a coral snake to its burrow. The spiders movements were very athletic. Here is another A. rufus observation from August 2010:
It would appear that A. rufus is especially proficient at hunting frogs, this one was much larger than it. Maybe it's common name should be changed to Giant Frogging Spider instead of fishing. ![]() Would love to get more access to this one: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-185X.1982.tb00363.x/abstract |
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| Ceph | Mar 28 2015, 02:17 AM Post #5 |
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![]() ![]() Edited by Ceph, Mar 28 2015, 12:36 PM.
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| Creeper | Mar 28 2015, 02:50 PM Post #6 |
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| Ceratodromeus | Nov 18 2015, 06:26 AM Post #7 |
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![]() (From: The role of predation in shaping crocodilian natural history) |
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| Ceph | Nov 18 2015, 07:33 AM Post #8 |
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I already posted this in the Anthopleura xanthogrammica profile but I thought it might get more views here. |
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| Choeradodis | Nov 18 2015, 02:32 PM Post #9 |
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| Mirounga leonina | Nov 26 2015, 08:26 AM Post #10 |
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Jellyfish eating some fish in a tank |
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| Ceratodromeus | Dec 2 2015, 02:23 AM Post #11 |
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Posted this in the fer de lance profile
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| Ceratodromeus | Feb 14 2016, 03:30 AM Post #12 |
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Creeper posted this on the carnivora facebook page! NSW farmer finds victorious daddy-long-legs killing brown snake ![]() Farmer and photographer Patrick Lees discovered the victorious and often-timid spider wrapping up its much larger prey in a web at his farm near Weethalle in the NSW central west, uploading it to his The Aussie Farmer Facebook page. Mr Lees told the ABC he had heard tales of spiders vanquishing snakes before but he had never seen one hand a snake its tail with his own eyes. "I've heard about it, but I've never seen it, let alone a daddy-long-legs," Mr Lees said. The snake was a juvenile, about one-metre long, but much larger than its predator. Mr Lees left the harvestman and snake where it was and a number of reinforcements later arrived to help wrap it in web from head to tail. https://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/a/30802558/nsw-farmer-finds-victorious-daddy-long-legs-killing-brown-snake/ side note; i did mention in a comment else where that this was a juvenile brown snake when i first saw the photo(not that it takes away from this very impressive predatory feat), but people didn't believe me ![]() Edited by Ceratodromeus, Feb 14 2016, 03:31 AM.
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| Vivyx | Feb 14 2016, 03:48 AM Post #13 |
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Felines, sharks, birds, arthropods
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Goliath Bird Eating Spider eating Fer-de-Lance![]() Camel Spider eats Gecko: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hru2ujTWNLA Greater Arid-land Katydid eats gecko: ![]() Account of Armoured Bush Cricket eating nestling Red-billed Quelea: Edited by Vivyx, Apr 15 2017, 02:12 AM.
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| Creeper | Feb 14 2016, 12:39 PM Post #14 |
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I guess they need to do more research, this is clearly not a harvestman, harvestmen have no way to produce web. Unless of course this type of spider is called a harvestman in NSW? |
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| Grimace | Feb 14 2016, 07:01 PM Post #15 |
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It's a cellar spider, not a harvestman! |
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