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Giant spiders that can grow to size of human hand thriving in the UK (www.theguardian.com)
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Chester zoo worked with the RSPB to raise hundreds of baby spiders, keeping them separate in test tubes so that they did not eat one another.

The spiders were hand-fed with tweezers in the zoo’s bio-secure breeding facility until they were big enough to be released into the wild.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How big does a human hand thriving in the UK get?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

About a footlong.

[–] tuck182 2 points 2 months ago

Nah, they're not much bigger than a newborn rat.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

What the actual fuck Chester zoo. No, just no.

[–] TastyWheat 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Shit, these things were fed tweezers, but what if they develop a taste for human flesh?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It says they fed them hands!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Naw they look like little huntsman.