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Multi-tasking tentacles
August 5, 2015|Animal Facts

Multi-tasking tentacles

Multi-tasking tentacles

Imagine if your arms or fingers were like a swiss army knife and could do just about everything and anything like; attract prey, change length, shoot weapons, go fishing, digest food and excrete your waste.

Well, it just so happens that an animal like this does exist with all these awesome traits. The good news is that it would be highly unlikely to ever find yourself at the dinner table with it.

Meet the Irukandji, which is really tricky to say let alone spell. Pronounced (ira-can-gee) it’s a type of box jellyfish, named for their distinctive box-like body or ‘bell’ with a single long tentacle coming down from each corner.

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This spider sucks
August 1, 2015|Animal Facts

This spider sucks

This spider sucks

We built the Sydney Funnel Web Spider up in our last blog, only to now tear it down and call it sucky in this one! But sadly it’s the truth, they do suck and they have to as they don’t have any teeth for chewing their food.

When they’ve found dinner, which is usually other creepy crawlies such as beetles and cockroaches, they rear up with a whole lot of attitude and stab their fangs down and into their prey delivering a powerful venom that paralyses it. This sounds impressive and it’s awesome to watch, but without any teeth how do they eat it?

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Male venom more toxic
July 28, 2015|Animal Facts

Male venom more toxic

Male venom more toxic

It seems males and females are not created equal, especially when it comes to venom. Enter the Sydney Funnel Web spider, a hairy and scary looking spider that can be found in the moist cool forest areas of ….you guessed it, Sydney Australia.

Life starts off as an equal playing field (apart from the obvious differences in girl and boy bits) with the venom profiles being the same. They spend the first few years of their lives hanging around close to their burrows, which are usually found under rocks, rotting logs and in leaf litter.

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