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TIL Tarantulas and other spiders lack leg extending muscles, and rely on the blood pressure spike from a heartbeat to 'reinflate' the leg back to its extended position. This is why spiders curl up when they die. : r/todayilearned
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How does a tarantula spider live? Tarantula spiders or tarantula spiders (theraphosidae) What do tarantulas eat
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A Maggot Trapped in a Spider Web in the Tropics Stock Footage - Video of tropics, tropical: 69951262
![Lost a mealworm in my gbb slings enclosure. It got caught in web and wasn't able to be removed at the time(mealworm would've pulled everything out of the cage with the web) Lost a mealworm in my gbb slings enclosure. It got caught in web and wasn't able to be removed at the time(mealworm would've pulled everything out of the cage with the web)](https://preview.redd.it/0w85xnluyub41.jpg?auto=webp&s=2d8964cdb3d59ac5054e48351bd5f83186e0fa11)