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Australia’s Scary Spiders

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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Death and Mutilation - It's Your Chance to Say What Scar You've Got

There's plenty of death and mutilation, but it's the spiders doing it to other animals. A marvellous giant orange wasp that's quite busy around this time of year in Sydney spends her time looking for Huntsman spiders. She'll sting it and paralyze it then lay a single egg inside the living, but paralyzed spider. Her baby, the baby wasp the lava will then grow inside the life-but paralyzed spider until it's eaten all the non-essential bits. And then it'll spin a little concoon and pop out. It's, I mean, nature's beautiful. Dita, it's your chance to say what scar you've got. Oh,

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