{"id":655,"date":"2011-03-08T19:29:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T11:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goateetoni.wordpress.com\/?p=655"},"modified":"2012-09-01T02:04:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T18:04:36","slug":"tarantulas-eat-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/tarantulas-eat-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarantulas eat alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you find having a tarantula crawling over your hand hair-raising, you&#8217;ve gotta see them eat to scale up your feeling.<\/p>\n<p>Tarantulas are predators. In the wild when the hunger comes they will prey on almost everything smaller- insects, geckos, tree frogs, and even venomous snakes. The way they hunt is fascinating. Unlike other spiders tarantulas don&#8217;t spin web. Instead, they capture prey on their own by their speed and power. Fangs are located underneath so they will swiftly move on top of the prey, bite, and eat.<\/p>\n\n<p>From the prey&#8217;s view it would be extremely scary. Imagine a huge  hairy spider jumps on top of you, and you&#8217;re surrounded by 8 hairy legs  getting a nasty bite on top of your head by 2 huge shape fangs. It&#8217;s  kinda like you&#8217;re going to a salon for a perm and inside the machine  there are 2 vertical swords waiting.. Finally venom is injected directly  into your brain and you suffer gigantic pain before falling into a  coma. Even after you die your body melts into bloody liquid turning into  nutrition for another creature&#8230; Alright, luckily there&#8217;s not yet any  tarantula found bigger than human \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>But everything has its good side if you will use some brain. Our  tarantulas are mainly fed on insects. so no bloody scene during feeding.  I always try to find interesting facts out of scary critters. Here is  one now I can think of. Interesting to tell, unlike other animals, the  smaller young tarantulas eat more than the bigger adults. Spiderlings  can feed as much as everyday, while adults can fast for 3 months or  more. Besides, tarantulas can smell. Without nostrils they smell by  feet. Imagine you have to step on a cheesecake with barefoot to taste  it. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you find having a tarantula crawling over your hand hair-raising, you&#8217;ve gotta see them eat to scale up your feeling. Tarantulas are predators. In the wild when the hunger comes they will prey on almost everything smaller- insects, geckos, tree frogs, and even venomous snakes. The way they hunt is fascinating. Unlike other spiders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs","tag-bug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurassicgarage.hk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}