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Originally Posted by dissentowner
Bull. Find me another source? Any source at all. There is not a spider on the planet that agressively attacks humans, it just doesn't happen. The worlds most dangerous spider is probably the male Sydney Funnel Web Spider and there have been zero fatalities since 1981. As for tarantulas their venom is never fatal and for another fact only in North America do we refer to spiders of the Theraphosidae family by that name. There has never been a case of a tarantula bite causing death, they just don't have a potent enough venom.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula
I am very familiar with spiders that inhabit India, the only large ones are from the family Poecilotheria and they cannot kill a person. So in closing a guy is claiming to the paper that a horde of highly venomous tarantulas that must be an entirely new species that was never seen before invaded a village and attacked people? Absolute rubbish! Tarantulas don't even live together, they are solitary animals. Well, there are some Avicularia species who's webs may overlap into eachother that might tolerate one another but those are South American spiders and very very docile. If you knew anything at all about tarantulas or even spiders for that matter you would see how stupid it is to believe this story. It is bullcrap. Maybe some of you should do your homework before believing every ridiculous thing you read. |
Well the article did say they didn't think the venom was fatal, just that the two people that died probably had an allergic reaction. (Like many people do to lots of different insect bites and stings).
You're obviously knowledgeable on the subject but did you bother to read the article through before you went off on it?