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The Fertile Crescent - The Cradle of civilisation |
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Don't mess with a redback
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An office receptionist got
the shock of her life earlier this week when she
found a 14cm long snake
entangled in the web of a deadly spider. Tania
Robertson, a receptionist at
an electrical firm, came in to work on Tuesday and spotted
the strange sight next to a desk in her office. The
snake,
which had obviously died from
the spider's poisonous bite, was off
the
ground and caught up in the
web.
Leon Lotz of the Arachnology department at the National Museum said it was only the second time that he had heard of a snake getting caught in a spider's web. It is believed the snake got caught in the web on Monday night. But it did not take the spider long to bite it. A red mark on the snake's stomach was evidence of where the spider had started eating it. Throughout Tuesday, the spider checked on her prey, but on Wednesday she rolled it up and started spinning a web around it. She also kept lifting it higher off the ground, while continually snacking on it. Even a fly that accidentally landed on the snake was chased off aggressively....... |
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