Comments on: And thy carcass shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.

And thy carcass shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.

Baby_Balrog — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:14:52 -0800

Spider eating a snake

Squirrel eating a squirrel.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:21:29 -0800

That squirrel business is cree-pay. Wow, it's been three years since Python v. Gator?!? Maybe I have been wasting my life after all.

By: thebigdeadwaltz

thebigdeadwaltz — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:22:59 -0800

Cannibal squirrels? Who knew!? That spider business is pretty gruesome too. Anyone know what kind of spider that was?

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:25:48 -0800

Note to self: Never go to Australia ever.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:26:44 -0800

Cannibal squirrels? Who knew!? I believe you're missing the obvious conclusion. Zombie Squirrels.

By: mandal

mandal — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:29:04 -0800

Anyone know what kind of spider that was? Article said redback. It really is a ~~dog eat dog~~ strange world, huh?.

By: adipocere

adipocere — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:30:51 -0800

I think we have a new set of iconography for America's two political parties in the 21st Century.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:35:54 -0800

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:40:09 -0800

A "Goliath Birdeater" spider...doing its thing, and for the sake of completing the thread, here's a wolf spider consuming another spider.

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:43:58 -0800

I almost forgot - here's a calf eating a chick.

By: Caduceus

Caduceus — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:46:26 -0800

DO NOT WANT

By: KokuRyu

KokuRyu — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:48:00 -0800

Why? Fun toy that would probably drive my mother insane with fear.

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:48:45 -0800

Pelican eats pigeon.

By: washburn

washburn — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:51:31 -0800

Hamburger eats baby.

By: ORthey

ORthey — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:51:56 -0800

cannibal squirrel not right...not right... hes just to hungry (no i did not make this video my friend did so get over urself fags) I luv utube lol.

By: Johnny Assay

Johnny Assay — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:53:58 -0800

"If we pull this off, we'll eat like kings!"

By: pracowity

pracowity — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:54:37 -0800

Baby hamster eating broccoli.

By: basicchannel

basicchannel — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:56:19 -0800

Half Sharkalligator, half man.

By: gman

gman — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:06:19 -0800

Ronald McDonald eating a human.

By: lostburner

lostburner — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:07:51 -0800

no no no no no no no

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:09:29 -0800

I'm very fond of unlikely relationships, usually of the benevolent variety,interspecies snorgling [warning, seriously cute, not for everybody] between squirrel and dog or crow and cat, I'm also interested in the unlikely relationships between predator and prey. It's really quite incredible to see a spider snag a snake. Man, this is some Hercules of a spider just to get the snake up there in the web. Amazing. This is Spider, da Man. Unlikely: on the darker side Hippo eats Buffalo On the lighter: Horse nibbles cat, another horse nibbling a cat. On preview, aww, I adore (for the hundredth time) that Mocha in "His First Broccoli!" vid.

By: vertigo25

vertigo25 — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:10:13 -0800

Not that I don't think a squirrel would eat a dead squirrel; but, honestly, it looks like he's attempting to clean him.

By: The Light Fantastic

The Light Fantastic — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:12:59 -0800

I think the squirrel was just licking the dead one - so no points for that. The spider though, wow - the Wikipedia article said that the largest they get is one centimeter - the snake was 14 times it's size! Really amazing.

By: podwarrior

podwarrior — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:16:35 -0800

I was hoping for a cow-eating chicken, not a cow eating a chiken.....

By: infinitywaltz

infinitywaltz — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:19:03 -0800

stop it stop it stop it stop it stop it stop it stop it stop it

By: droplet

droplet — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:24:06 -0800

"This is a very tasty bandicoot." "Very tasty, yes." "Did you read in the paper about the gal what got the snake, then? I mean, a 14-cm snake? Is that all? Why, when I was a lass, I had a whole koala every day!" "One koala, eh? That's a mere snack! My mum'd send me off to school with six emus and an ostrich for afters in my lunch pail." "That's a tiny lunch pail, then! In my day I'd eat four kangas, two sheep, a platypus AND a dehydrated human what got lost in the bush. And that was just for elevenses!" "Oh, I remember those days!" "Yes. Hmm." "But you tell kids that today and do they believe you? Noooooo...!"

By: moonbiter

moonbiter — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:26:17 -0800

I feel kind of embarrassed for that snake.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:27:38 -0800

Awww. Now she'll have stories to tell ito the thousands of children she's been planting in your hair at night.

By: pracowity

pracowity — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:28:38 -0800

Otters holding hands.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:29:59 -0800

Okay this genre of youtube videos got all PETA on me with some rats eating farmed ducks alive. Poor little quacky ducks.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:33:11 -0800

Oh, a squirrel will eat another squirrel, I bet. Scene: Pet Shop. AV: "Oh look! Baby hamsters!! Still all pink and blind! Awww! And what's that Mama Hamster is over here eating with her cute little teeth and teeny weeny paws??? OH LOOK. Baby hamsters!! Still all pink and blind! Ewww!"

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:34:25 -0800

Adding to the Sunday weird sillibiz with amazing spider and unlikely prey: spider nails barn swallow in web Adding to the amazing (really) bug factor: the Trilobite beetle of Laos Adding to the weird eating aspect: Andy Warhol Eats a Hamburger

By: sugarfish

sugarfish — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:48:17 -0800

The email accompanying the images claims a receptionist at an electrical firm came in to work on Tuesday to find the snake caught up in the web. And that's when I would quit my job! And move out of my house! And go live somewhere in the frozen, barren north where spiders don't eat goddamned snakes!

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:04:31 -0800

Squirrel's home.

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:19:34 -0800

I think the squirrel was probably eating maggots or something. Didn't seem to be really digging in, y'know?

By: lostburner

lostburner — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:39:40 -0800

eating maggots or something Oh, okay then.

By: paisley henosis

paisley henosis — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:40:59 -0800

It didn't really seem like the squirrel was ingesting the other squirrel. This thread is amazing, and amazingly gross.

By: RussHy

RussHy — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:45:35 -0800

The horror! The horror!

By: ArgentCorvid

ArgentCorvid — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:51:51 -0800

how about a Mantis eating a Hummingbird?

By: Mutant

Mutant — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:54:28 -0800

Gosh I have way serious arachnophobia. Bad. A big time irrational fear, and this is coming from someone who spent several years of his life working down in Sub Saharan Africa, both the cities as well as the remote bush. They got spiders in those parts of the world. Lordy mercy do they have spiders. I was working in Lagos and got caught up in a traffic jam. Back then gasoline only cost $0.05 a gallon down there so everyone, absolutely everyone who could had a vehicle of some sort. Be it a rickety old private car, a yellow van (when it's that colour you can pick up passengers and make a little cash on the side), a filthy pickup truck or even a motorcycle, everyone who could drove. Now Lagos has these wonderful four lane main roads that are hopelessly blocked with what at times appear to be perpetual traffic jams. I was being driven home one afternoon when we got stuck in one of these legendary blockades. I was iPoding, bored, and just happened to look towards the sidewalk which was dense with folks making their way home on foot. Perhaps two fee above their heads I saw the shadow of an outline of a non moving creature. It appeared to be a spider. Although it was much, much larger than any spider had the right to be. I watched a little while longer, transfixed by what seemed to be the creature twitching two of it's front legs, almost feeling the wall in front of it. I still wasn't sure if this was a painting on the wall, or a genuine spider when I saw it suddenly - and rapidly! - scuttle across the wall, moving perhaps two feet in a brief flash of motion. It froze, paused, and once again blended into the pattern on the wall. Nobody walking on the sidewalk below took notice of or appeared to know there was this furry dark eight legged monster perched just inches above it's head. Even though separated by three lanes of traffic, sitting there in a car with the windows closed, my arachnophobia grabbed hold, I started to sweat and was absolutely terrified. This spider was far, far larger than any eight legged creature had the right to be. Now we always went with a driver and security guy while working in Lagos. They were sitting in the front and I was so so fucking nervous about the size of that creature that I was looking for reassurance. "Hey uhhh, Jim?" I nudged the back of the front seat. The driver, a great young guy I was pretty friendly with turned off that raucous music both of them had been grooving to. "Uuuhhh?" he inquired in a basal grunt. "Yeh, uh that uhh thu thu THING over there" I motioned toward the sidewalk. "On the wall over there, I uh, well, that isn't a spider is it?" I was desperately hoping Jimmy would say it wasn't a spider, that my eyes were playing tricks on me, but the answer I was dreading came back. "Spider" He answered confidently, authoritatively, affirmatively, but still had barely given it a glance, like this was something he saw every day. Oh god. That wasn't the kind of shit I wanted to hear. "Uhh, that's pretty big isn't it?" This time he took a good long look, going so far as to temporarily remove his dark sunglasses and confer with the security guy in the front seat, who grunted something at the driver. That spider was the biggest creature with more than four legs that I'd ever seen. I was dearly hoping he and the security guy were gonna immediately leap from that car wielding the Uzis they both carried and trot in an aggressive military manner right across the road and spray that oversized arachnid all over the wall. Bipedal justice to deal with an unnaturally sized spider. "Not big" came Jimmy's calm and stoic response. A hole in the traffic opened up and we drove on without another word. They weren't fussed by the sight of that spider. At all. They dropped me off at my hotel maybe thirty minutes later. That night I checked my hotel room for spiders several times before falling asleep. Then I'd wake up and check again. I checked several times that evening, and I've never felt comfortable working in Lagos since.

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:56:52 -0800

Note to self: Never go to Australia ever. Aw, it's okay. Just don't go in the(ir) summer. -no snakes -no jellyfish -no wildfires -hotels are dirt cheap -you have the beaches to yourself because Aussies freeze solid at 25°C The drawback is that, while there won't be as many spiders outside, that's only because they've moved inside.

By: kliuless

kliuless — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:28:18 -0800

could it be that the squirrel was trying to wake the other squirrel up?

By: kliuless

kliuless — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:30:45 -0800

or like grooming it (for death ;) or something!

By: NikitaNikita

NikitaNikita — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:42:05 -0800

or eating something stuck in its fur, i thought

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:41:11 -0800

Neat. I've also seen pictures of an Achaearanea eating a garter snake. Except it looks like the genus name has been changed. Bother. Anyway, little nondescript spider you find in and near houses all over the place, usually eating insects. But not that day.

By: Ghidorah

Ghidorah — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:50:25 -0800

I will not be watching any of your nightmare fuel, thank you. Like Mutant, I have a terrible fear of spiders, but somewhere down the line, I've realized that, much like most things, if I don't do something about it, no one will. My friends claim that my ability to kill spiders (with my bare hands if need be) is a sign that I don't have a phobia. I disagree. It is a sign that I'm so terrified, I'll do things that I would very, very much rather not do, just to make the bad thing go away. Then again, spiders are good in a way. Sufficiently large spiders, I believe, are proof that either god does not exist, or is not benevolent, because no loving god could make something soooooo evil. And no, I'm still not over the roughly face-sized spider I had to kill in my apartment, alone, at about 3am in my second week of living in Japan. Body the size of a quarter, legs as long and thick as pipe-cleaners. I could hear it running along the wall, it sounded like a mouse. I broke a dust pan killing it. It didn't squish, it crunched. Just remember, either there is no god, or god has a strong dislike for us.

By: cropshy

cropshy — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:53:09 -0800

I once saw a spider eat a lizard. The small lizard got caught in the web and the spider just waited for it tire itself out struggling to get free. The spider began to slowly wrap lizard in web. If the lizard began to struggle, the spider would just back off and wait. Eventually the whole lizard was wrapped up like a mummy. I watched this scene over a period of two or three days. The lizard was still alive, but wrapped up and the spider would occasionally crawl over to it and suck on it. Too bad I didn't have a video camera.

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:59:12 -0800

I don't like spiders and snakes.

By: Countess Elena

Countess Elena — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:01:33 -0800

spider nails barn swallow in web Nothing in that video could show a more unnatural horror than this phrasing suggests. I like spiders, really. They're industrious, they want to stay in one spot, and they clean up some bugs that cause real annoyance. They aren't rooting through your cabinets or your garbage and tracking bacteria everywhere.

By: tommasz

tommasz — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:33:40 -0800

"Come to Australia You might accidentally get killed Your blood is bound to be spilled With fear your pants will be filled Because you might accidentally get killed" - Scared Weird Little Guys

By: sebastienbailard

sebastienbailard — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:00:47 -0800

Not news - snake kills mouse. News - mouse kills snake.

By: Artw

Artw — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:05:38 -0800

Centipede eating a bat

By: parudox

parudox — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:27:57 -0800

This is the right place to post these links: Cow eats baby chicken. Giant centipede eats mouse. Fish eats baby gator. Praying mantis eats praying mantis. Also, python vs. tiger for good measure.

By: R343L

R343L — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:33:03 -0800

Nematode Trapping Fungi -- movie. Yes. It turns out some fungi are predators on worms. Note that the common and tasty oyster mushroom is one of them.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:13:11 -0800

Really ugly giant spider eating lizard pic. Arachnophobes' nightmare, giant spider gives birth to dozens of babies pic. Wondering if the giant spider in Mutant's experience was either a camel spider or a whip scorpion?

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:24:23 -0800

Just remember, either there is no god, or god has a strong dislike for us. Bathtub. Middle of the morning. Reading a book, maybe a collected Shirley Jackson, sitting back in the warm water when I moved the book and noticed a roach the size of my hand on the tub. I screamed like a girl and flew out of the tub, wet and loud. I PUNCHED it while draining the tub and, still screaming, grabbed the bleach spray and plunger and forced it into the drain. I ruined the book. And I want to move someplace colder.

By: Wet Spot

Wet Spot — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:42:24 -0800

Tastes like chicken!

By: Mephisto

Mephisto — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:05:16 -0800

Redbacks are nasty. Not as bad as Funnel Web Spiders, mind you, but nasty none the less. I'm not Australian by birth, and it always amuses me that locals say things like "Nah mate... Redback won't kill you. No one's died of a Redback bite in years. Pass the beer..." They're right of course. Redback would only really kill you if you were an infant, elderly or rather sick. If you're a healthy male, they'd just really fuck you up. Ermmm.... thanks. I'm so reassured now. What's worse is that I have two young daughters (God bless their Aussie souls), and I regularly find these little buggers in our garage or shed; the spiders... not the girls! Freaks me out. And secondly, there was a HUGE one living in my postbox last summer. I only discovered it late in the season, after months of sticking my hand in there and grabbing my post... all the time ticklingly it's long fore-arms no doubt. I can just imagine the bastard, perched in there in its web, coldly waiting for me each morning, its cold black arachnid eyes glistening in the darkness, waiting.... waiting... thinking to itself "This time... I'm going to pounce this time...." Stupid Australia. I wish my wife hadn't been born here. We should have stayed in Ireland where the most dangerous thing is the price of Guinness.

By: Daddy-O

Daddy-O — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:14:45 -0800

Dog eats corn on the cob

By: kaibutsu

kaibutsu — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:22:28 -0800

Unless that spider is eating a snake on a motherfucking plane, I'm not impressed.

By: kaibutsu

kaibutsu — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:33:43 -0800

Personal anecdote. My dome-mate and I once found a black widow living between our stereo components, the receiver and the multi-disc player, to be specific. On finding it, we said, 'Hm, guess we can never move the stereo again,' and went on our merry way for a couple of months thereafter until one of our girlfriends found out about it and we were forced into action. I put on some thick ski gloves and carefully moved the receiver, revealing the black widow and - behold! - a fatty egg sack attached to the bottom of the receiver. So I got a jar and caught the spider and destroyed the eggsack. We put the jar behind the front door in a bit of a nook next to some books. I named the spider Nancy, after Nancy Reagan, and every couple of months we would feed her a bug. We fed her a wasp (found sluggishly crawling across the dome floor in the dead of winter), a cricket, and some other random insects, all of which she ate with great gusto and spectacle. Nancy was a great pet. Until she laid another egg sack anyway. Which eventually (following a long period of not doing anything about it) hatched a whole shite-ton of little black widow spiders. Then I was kind of afraid to feed her for fear of letting any of the little ones out. But she only needed fed every few months, so I wasn't too worried. Until she laid another egg sack. Then I put the jar far out in the far fields, releasing Nancy and her multitudinous children into the wild. Here's the lesson I learned from all this: It turns out black widows only really need to mate once; they can hold the sperm for years, according to my sources in the entomology department. The more you know, right?

By: Auden

Auden — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:35:10 -0800

That calf eating a chick video of Smart Dalek's is really ... I don't know. There's something really subtle, sad, slight and profound about it. For some reason it makes me think of W H Auden's Musee des Beaux Arts. Or Gummo. Poor chick, poor calf, poor kids.

By: Auden

Auden — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:37:25 -0800

dome-mate?

By: Artw

Artw — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:46:20 -0800

Cat eating lollypop.

By: Chuffy

Chuffy — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:45:21 -0800

Reading the fun comments in the bottom of the article led me, eventually, to this site which explains this picture: Although some have questioned the authenticity of the photographs, they are in fact genuine. The description of the incident in the message is an abridged version of an article first published by South African online news outlet, News24 in February 2004. The article notes: Bloemfontein - An office receptionist got the shock of her life earlier this week when she found a 14cm long Aurora house snake entangled in the web of a deadly spider. Tania Robertson, a receptionist at an electrical firm in Bloemfontein, 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 immediately identified the spider as a female brown button spider The version of the story that is currently circulating omits location information along with identification details about the creatures shown in the photographs and these omissions have caused some confusion. Africa's Brown Button spider is related to Australia's Redback spider and America's Black Widow spider. All three have distinctive red markings on their bodies and are similar in shape. Thus, some commentators have misidentified the spider in the photographs as a Redback and therefore falsely assumed that the snake's demise occurred in Australia. Others wrongly believe the spider is a Black Widow and relocate the action to the United States.

By: penduluum

penduluum — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:15:13 -0800

Dog eats corn on the cob posted by Daddy-O at 10:14 PM on October 19 [+] [!] My parents' dog eats corn on the cob, just like the dog in this video. Peels his little lips back and goes to town. He's a Yorkie, but he's a horse of a Yorkie, not one of those little teacup dealies; he's a scrapper. He also likes watermelon a lot. Crunches it up. So far as I know he hasn't eaten any improbable members of kingdom Animalia, and either way I don't have any videos of it.

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:22:32 -0800

Cat eats blueberries and fingers

By: pracowity

pracowity — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:21:13 -0800

I don't like spiders and snakes. And that ain't what it takes to love me...

By: dhruva

dhruva — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:33:55 -0800

heh. I went to australia for the spiders!

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:51:34 -0800

I'm having Fritz Lieber flashbacks.

By: ignignokt

ignignokt — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:35:06 -0800

Huge-ass hornet eating bees.

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:43:53 -0800

Fat cat sat at table contemplating eating sushi meal

By: kliuless

kliuless — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:55:51 -0800

obviously we've hit the big time

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:55:00 -0800

BARON HARKOKITTEN IS DISPLEASED

By: Artw

Artw — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:07:09 -0800

Bring me the floating fat cats!

By: turgid dahlia

turgid dahlia — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:39:00 -0800

OH HAI!

By: dasheekeejones

dasheekeejones — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:21:47 -0800

Well now that I'm totally paranoid and creeped out....

By: Blackadder

Blackadder — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:18:54 -0800

how about a Mantis eating a Hummingbird? Notice how this is reported in Bird Watcher's Digest? Hee.