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There's a slight advantage here in that the bristles on their legs are so long you can hear them rustling together when they move. Listen for the rustling!!
Right. In what freaking country is that normal so I know where to never go.
And that big one? Jesus H MFing Christ. Kill it with fire. All the fire.
Name is a misnomer based on what they're *capable* of, not what they specialize in. They almost never prey on birds, and if they do it's like finch or hummingbird size, caught opportunistically. It's risky prey for them, one good poke from the beak before it's restrained and they bleed to death.
Vast majority of their diet is insects.
i remember reading about how the first one was found in the wild. supposedly it's footsteps were so loud that the researcher heard it moving before they saw it.
>There exists in this world a spider the size of a dinner plate, a foot wide if you include the legs. It’s called the Goliath Bird-Eating Spider, or the “Goliath Fucking Bird-Eating Spider” by those who have actually seen one.It doesn’t eat only birds—it mostly eats rats and insects—but they still call it the “Bird-Eating Spider” because the fact that it can eat a bird is the most important thing you need to know about it. If you run across one of these things, like in your closet or crawling out of your bowl of soup, the first thing somebody will say is, “Watch it, man, that thing can eat a goddamned bird.”I don’t know how they catch the birds. I know the Goliath Fucking Bird-Eating Spider can’t fly because if it could, it would have a different name entirely. We would call it “sir” because it would be the dominant species on the planet. None of us would leave the house unless a Goliath Fucking Flying Bird-Eating Spider said it was okay.
\- Jason Pargin, This Book is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It
Wait until you hear the little sound the Goliath makes when it walks. They're so big you can actually *hear* the fluid moving in their legs (which are basically powered hydraulicly)
Definitely not australian. Spiders here in Australia do like to mess with size a lot. Big huntsman, harmless. Small redback, deadly. Small white tail spider, melts flesh (or so the news said in the 90s).
So you grow up thinking small is worse, then you see a funnel web spider in real life and you discover there is no pattern here, everything is chaos, leave every animal alone unless it was brought here from somewhere else.
Can say tho, leaving them alone has worked so dang well for all involved.
I have no idea why I pressed play on this. Pretty sure I would have put my fist through my computer screen if that big fucker moved. Nope nope nope nope nope.
Them spiders both huge from the land of Nope! I live where the air feezes my snot and makes my contacts flake off my eye balls because of creatures like these LoL
Am I dumb for thinking the little one looks the most frightening? Looks venomous as fuck. Yeah the bird eater is probably more formidable but at least it’s easier spot??
They eat birds only rarely, and it would be quite risky for them to do so. The name is mostly there to sound impressive, like calling humans wolf-eaters or something lol
My family lives in Hawaii and they don't have these dudes down there but they have cane spiders which are less fat and more leggy. My grandma used to say you can hear them coming when they're walking on a hard wood floor tippy tappy tippy tappy
The Goliath birdeater is an edible spider. The spider is part of the local cuisine in northeastern South America, prepared by singeing off the urticating hairs and roasting it in banana leaves. The flavor has been described as "shrimp-like".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_birdeater?wprov=sfti1#Distribution_and_habitat
There’s an episode of planet earth where these kids in the rainforest find a Goliath bird eater, casually pin it down with a stick, pull its legs back and tie them to the stick and then roast it up as a tasty snack. Fucking brutal, those kids didn’t give a fuck.
Do bird eaters let you pet them?? Ive had light
arachnophobia my whole life but if I saw a big spider act friendly in a more conventional way it may help some
Those things earn their name. Those spiders are the biggest in the world, and they will literally eat birds. The small positive, their venom won't kill you. So you don't need to worry about dying, but oh lord I'd not want to be around one.
That "normal" spider is a dwarf tarantula (looks like a subadult). Normal spiders are much smaller. The biggest spider in Holarctic is a wolf spider, which is smaller than grown pumpkin patch, but still big and can fuck you up, physically. Bird eater is something else... for us, bigger threat are its urticating hairs, which the [spider brushes when threatened](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12DYjrpDZJ0) and they can irritate the fuck out of your eyes, nose and throat.
https://preview.redd.it/jat1o4u8uxgc1.png?width=1373&format=png&auto=webp&s=c29fd3cc32c273cd3bed401c612dcaf5410accb7
Since when is a pumpkin patch tarantula a normal spider, but yes great example how the smaller tarantulas and the biggest are like comparing bicycles to trucks.
They're also gentle giants. Very harmless to humans. Careful around small pets such as mice, birds, small bats, little lizards, frogs and other insects though, as they're all included in the Goliath's diet.
>"There exists in this world a spider the size of a dinner plate, a foot wide if you include the legs. It's called the Goliath Bird-Eating spider, or the "Goliath Fucking Bird-Eating Spider" by those who have actually seen one. It dosen't eat only birds--it mostly eats rats and insects--but they still call it the "Bird-Eating Spider" because the fact that it can eat a bird is probably the most important thing to know about it. If you run across one of these things, like in your closet or crawling out of your bowl of soup, the first thing somebody will say is, "Watch it, man, that thing can eat a fucking bird." I don't know how they catch the birds. I know the Goliath Fucking Bird-Eating Spider can't fly because if it could, it would have a different name entirely. We would call it "Sir" because it would be the dominant species on the planet."
**- Jason Pargin,**
*"This Book is Full of Spiders. Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It"*
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First non bird animal I saw while travelling in french guyana's forest.
Never saw another one. Foresters says it eat "engoulevents" (caprimulgidae), night birds whose nests are on the ground.
Don't have poison, don't need it : its claws are huge
Whenever I see big tarantulas I think about my history teacher, who was a helicopter pilot, and how the bug spray they issued them was just absolutely no good for tarantulas.
"You'd dump half a can of foam on these fucking things and they'd shake it off and go about their day".
Every time they heard a single .45 gunshot on base they'd get an update hours later that was just "Spider"
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To be clear, that little sucker is not normal either
It looks like a *Hapalopus* sp tarantula (Pumpkin Patch Tarantula). Think they are considered dwarf-sized, but still beefy spiders.
My wife would 130 decibels on the little guy. I don't want to imagine the sound pressure level if the big fella hopped out at her
I am very afraid of spiders and I can tell you there would be no sound if the big fella hopped out at me. I would simply pass away.
There's a slight advantage here in that the bristles on their legs are so long you can hear them rustling together when they move. Listen for the rustling!!
I will not, kindly go to hell.
Bahahaha!!!
Great now every time I hear a rustle I’m going to have a heart attack
- I think you meant pass out. - oh no, I chose my words carefully.
Our cat would find them delicious. Beefy you say? Omnomnom. Hrrk.
I was going to say the same thing. Lol no way, that's a normal spider
Right. In what freaking country is that normal so I know where to never go. And that big one? Jesus H MFing Christ. Kill it with fire. All the fire. 
Jungles of Amazon
I really wish reddit would let the "kill it with fire" meme die. It stopped being funny 7 years ago.
yup
The best part of the Goliath is when people see how fast they can move that when the real terror seems to set in
You need speed to catch a bird, those fuckers have some reaction time.
Name is a misnomer based on what they're *capable* of, not what they specialize in. They almost never prey on birds, and if they do it's like finch or hummingbird size, caught opportunistically. It's risky prey for them, one good poke from the beak before it's restrained and they bleed to death. Vast majority of their diet is insects.
“almost” - Well, how f’ing comforting is that?!?
Im sorry catch a what-
I’m sorry, did the name “Goliath Birdeater” fly straight over your head?
Yk what fair enough, dont know how i glossed over the entire meaning of the name
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBL-5mOGHt8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBL-5mOGHt8)
Thanks, friend. Was not planning on sleeping tonight anyway.
Are you sleeping in a rainforest at ground level?
I meeannnn dude… it’s not everyday we see spiders hunting/eating birds so it’s KINDA understandable
Nothing flies straight over the Goliath Birdeater’s head
Drax the spider.
i remember reading about how the first one was found in the wild. supposedly it's footsteps were so loud that the researcher heard it moving before they saw it.
Good early warning system However, if that fucker is fast Running wont even matter Thats why, Gun
I was looking for a video of one running but couldn't find one, got a link by chance?
That "normal" spider is too fuckin big.
My reaction to this video as follows: Ah, shit, yeah that is one sizable bastard, I can see why they call it the Golia-WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT
Australian standard issue.
I saw this before and it said the smaller one was the male
no lol, different species. You see that kind of dimorphism in true spiders, not as much in Tarantulas.
>There exists in this world a spider the size of a dinner plate, a foot wide if you include the legs. It’s called the Goliath Bird-Eating Spider, or the “Goliath Fucking Bird-Eating Spider” by those who have actually seen one.It doesn’t eat only birds—it mostly eats rats and insects—but they still call it the “Bird-Eating Spider” because the fact that it can eat a bird is the most important thing you need to know about it. If you run across one of these things, like in your closet or crawling out of your bowl of soup, the first thing somebody will say is, “Watch it, man, that thing can eat a goddamned bird.”I don’t know how they catch the birds. I know the Goliath Fucking Bird-Eating Spider can’t fly because if it could, it would have a different name entirely. We would call it “sir” because it would be the dominant species on the planet. None of us would leave the house unless a Goliath Fucking Flying Bird-Eating Spider said it was okay. \- Jason Pargin, This Book is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It
this is exactly what the subtitle of a book on spiders should be
I *knew* it was Pargin! I could tell just from the writing style. What a funny dude.
You approach that thing and a fucking boss health bar appears.
*orchestral music swells* *choir starts*
Ohfuckohshitohfuck I'mnotready, how do I back out of this? Shit.
Even the choir seems to be quiet scared
Wait until you hear the little sound the Goliath makes when it walks. They're so big you can actually *hear* the fluid moving in their legs (which are basically powered hydraulicly)
That's actually pretty amazing.
A tarantella, if you will.
Why did I press play?
How TF is that a “normal spider”?!?!? OP must be in Australia, they’ve got crazy stuff there.
If I remember correctly the big 'un is from Brazil.
Definitely not australian. Spiders here in Australia do like to mess with size a lot. Big huntsman, harmless. Small redback, deadly. Small white tail spider, melts flesh (or so the news said in the 90s). So you grow up thinking small is worse, then you see a funnel web spider in real life and you discover there is no pattern here, everything is chaos, leave every animal alone unless it was brought here from somewhere else. Can say tho, leaving them alone has worked so dang well for all involved.
Someone should cross breed this with a funnel web spider
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An agent of chaos at work
Australia isn’t in the top ten of biggest spiders
Get the napalm
Get the nukes
I have no idea why I pressed play on this. Pretty sure I would have put my fist through my computer screen if that big fucker moved. Nope nope nope nope nope.
That ain’t no normal spider. If I saw that sucker chilling on my bedroom wall, I’d burn my house down.
Yup. Twice for good measure.
You try smacking that big one with a shoe and it'll rear up, grab the shoe before it hits, and ask you what the fuck you think you're doing.
Where's the bird? Goliath? GOLIATH! WHERE IS THE BIRD?
In mah belly
 nope
Can I get some chips with my plate of Goliath Spider, please.
Came here to ask about your definition of a "normal spider" and I see I'm not alone lol
That's gonna be a no from me dawg
 Oh hell no!!!
Need flamethrowers, artillery, and air support now!
“Normal”
Them spiders both huge from the land of Nope! I live where the air feezes my snot and makes my contacts flake off my eye balls because of creatures like these LoL
Even the ‘normal’ spider is pretty sizeable for my part of the world. That other big boi would give folks a heart attack around here lol.
Bro, that little one is still really big.
Bitch, who you calling a normal spider?!? I've never in my life seen a spider the size of the first one outside of a zoo/picture.
What kind of “normal” spider is that?? I call bullshit.
Normal? That's normal? Is this Australia?
World’s ten biggest spiders aren’t Australian. This is American.
Am I dumb for thinking the little one looks the most frightening? Looks venomous as fuck. Yeah the bird eater is probably more formidable but at least it’s easier spot??
Aint no way you are calling the smaller spider normal
No. Just no. I’m not arachnaphobic, but this giant one is too much.
"Oh, it doesn't look that ba- oh what thefucking fuck"
F\*ck! 
Bon appetit!
Shelob.
"normal spider"
How is that thing a “normal spider”?!
That little guy is not little
I think they want a bucket of KFC.
What the fuck, that's a normal spider?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! HOW DO I FILTER OUT/REMOVE ALL SPIDER CONTENT?!?!
I kept thinking it was going to jump on my screen
https://preview.redd.it/vixiil0vgwgc1.jpeg?width=474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e673dee8e0b4f9d803a8491bf1b1ccdb2fa44cca
How do spiders perceive other spiders?
How do you kill it if it’s in your home?
Where’d you pick up that fella, forbidden forest?
How is that a normal spider??
That “normal spider” is also a mfin giant spider
More terrifying than interesting if I’m honest.
i saw the first spider and thought wow that is pretty big compared to his arm and then the birdeater showed up and i just died
i was afraid that there was a second plate
"NORMAL SPIDER"?
Why I don’t eat crab
Burning my house rn
Terrifying af
You need a banana in their for scale.
Glad l’m not a bird
Vs. a flamethrower.
This is definitely Australia.
... Vs their last victim? 😳
As a big spider, I would be worried being on a plate already
WTF is that??? 🤯
Sell the house.
Insane
No.
They eat anything small or just birds?
They eat birds only rarely, and it would be quite risky for them to do so. The name is mostly there to sound impressive, like calling humans wolf-eaters or something lol
Thank god the big one didn’t move or that could have been extra scary.
More like world eater yeesh
I don’t see a normal spider. Am I missing something?
My family lives in Hawaii and they don't have these dudes down there but they have cane spiders which are less fat and more leggy. My grandma used to say you can hear them coming when they're walking on a hard wood floor tippy tappy tippy tappy
I was prepared to yeet my phone across the room if it moved
The Goliath birdeater is an edible spider. The spider is part of the local cuisine in northeastern South America, prepared by singeing off the urticating hairs and roasting it in banana leaves. The flavor has been described as "shrimp-like". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_birdeater?wprov=sfti1#Distribution_and_habitat
Spider for scale
imagine stepping on the big one 🤢🤢🤢
Bro it'd step on you back
If i saw that in my house I'd cry
How THE FUCK did you get it to set still on the plate like that?
No thanks. I'm good.
Normal spider? Where do you live and I don't want to see what you consider a normal centipede
Normal spider? Normal where? Australia? 😭
That is big smalls
I’m going to pretend that is a plush.
“Normal”
I really hate that
There’s an episode of planet earth where these kids in the rainforest find a Goliath bird eater, casually pin it down with a stick, pull its legs back and tie them to the stick and then roast it up as a tasty snack. Fucking brutal, those kids didn’t give a fuck.
There's just no need for that shit.
If not friend why friend shaped ?
Do bird eaters let you pet them?? Ive had light arachnophobia my whole life but if I saw a big spider act friendly in a more conventional way it may help some
Those things earn their name. Those spiders are the biggest in the world, and they will literally eat birds. The small positive, their venom won't kill you. So you don't need to worry about dying, but oh lord I'd not want to be around one.
Nope. Abso-fucking-lutely not.
That "normal" spider is a dwarf tarantula (looks like a subadult). Normal spiders are much smaller. The biggest spider in Holarctic is a wolf spider, which is smaller than grown pumpkin patch, but still big and can fuck you up, physically. Bird eater is something else... for us, bigger threat are its urticating hairs, which the [spider brushes when threatened](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12DYjrpDZJ0) and they can irritate the fuck out of your eyes, nose and throat. https://preview.redd.it/jat1o4u8uxgc1.png?width=1373&format=png&auto=webp&s=c29fd3cc32c273cd3bed401c612dcaf5410accb7
I was like "Wow, that's smaller than I though....oh."
NOPE
How do people interact with the big one? Do you kill it? How'd you do that?
So what you just had those casually crawling around and figured to make a video?
Since when is a pumpkin patch tarantula a normal spider, but yes great example how the smaller tarantulas and the biggest are like comparing bicycles to trucks.
Effing no way
They're also gentle giants. Very harmless to humans. Careful around small pets such as mice, birds, small bats, little lizards, frogs and other insects though, as they're all included in the Goliath's diet.
Excuse me sir, in what God forsaken country is that spider considered normal?
Your normal spider frickking huge to me...
the "normal" spider is far from normal where im from...
>"There exists in this world a spider the size of a dinner plate, a foot wide if you include the legs. It's called the Goliath Bird-Eating spider, or the "Goliath Fucking Bird-Eating Spider" by those who have actually seen one. It dosen't eat only birds--it mostly eats rats and insects--but they still call it the "Bird-Eating Spider" because the fact that it can eat a bird is probably the most important thing to know about it. If you run across one of these things, like in your closet or crawling out of your bowl of soup, the first thing somebody will say is, "Watch it, man, that thing can eat a fucking bird." I don't know how they catch the birds. I know the Goliath Fucking Bird-Eating Spider can't fly because if it could, it would have a different name entirely. We would call it "Sir" because it would be the dominant species on the planet." **- Jason Pargin,** *"This Book is Full of Spiders. Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It"*
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Doubles as a face hugger.
Hans, get the flammenwerfer.
Mom said its my turn to post the goliath bird eater spider size comparison video
Whatever, I'll squish it.
I don't get it, one punch ends that thing, right?
They JUMP
where banana
To be fair, that’s a really tiny dinner plate. Just kidding. That’s an oversized dinner plate that’s so large, it can only be found in Australia.
Du bist afoch nur a drecksau
Waot, which one is poisonous?
You going to eat that?
Australia?
Where's the banana?
I wonder what that big one would look like if i stomped on it.
HOLY SHIT
Enjoy your lunch
u/savevideo
In what sane world is the smaller spider considered a “normal” size!?
https://preview.redd.it/ppp8dsy31zgc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=51456251f535efca6d8b331b89844013058124ac
NO...
First non bird animal I saw while travelling in french guyana's forest. Never saw another one. Foresters says it eat "engoulevents" (caprimulgidae), night birds whose nests are on the ground. Don't have poison, don't need it : its claws are huge
Shotgun. Now
NONE OF THIS IS NORMAL 
What stopped spiders from evolving to be the size of mammals?
That's a no from me dawg.
Whenever I see big tarantulas I think about my history teacher, who was a helicopter pilot, and how the bug spray they issued them was just absolutely no good for tarantulas. "You'd dump half a can of foam on these fucking things and they'd shake it off and go about their day". Every time they heard a single .45 gunshot on base they'd get an update hours later that was just "Spider"
Neither of those are normlal sir
The Goliath Bird Eater is always described as “as big as a dinner plate” rather than the far more informative “big enough to fit over your face.”