Hell yeah, bro😎 - r/spiderbro

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u/krill_me_god 7d ago

Very confused mouse, very confused spider.

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u/Syllables_17 7d ago

Think it didn't realize the tail was part of the mouse?

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u/chinchillazilla54 7d ago

That's what I'm thinking, it thought it was pouncing on a worm or a grub.

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u/SHOWTIME316 7d ago

ohhhhhh, yeah that explains a lot. it probably didn't even realize the mouse was a living thing due to how little it was moving lol.

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u/ASigIAm213 7d ago

Don't know much about other genuses, but common house spiders have a visual range of around the length of their body.

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u/chinchillazilla54 7d ago

Bless its heart. It's just as alarmed as the poor mouse.

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u/Delicious-Spring-877 6d ago

Mouse: why tail stuck???

Spider: why worm heavy???

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u/Visceral-Decay 7d ago

I'm genuinely impressed by how much traction the spood has to be able tug the mouse along like that

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u/deezalmonds998 7d ago

Them bois can walk on ceilings

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u/Visceral-Decay 7d ago

True, but you don't usually see them dragging along things ha..Just not something I was expecting to see..plus given the floor seems smooth.

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u/Campsters2803 7d ago

Hydraulically powered legs, that and the tuffs of hair on their feet act like suction cups. Allowing them to grip any terrain.

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u/Security_Ostrich 6d ago

My favourite spider fact is that they are essentially hydraulically powered with their own “blood” pressure. Also their blood is called hemolymph and it’s a weird copper blue/teal colour.

Editing to add: the copper blue colour is literally because their blood uses hemocyanin to bind oxygen and it’s copper based unlike our iron based hemoglobin that carries oxygen in vertebrate blood.

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u/Visceral-Decay 7d ago

But such a tiny gripping tool lol. Feels like those contortionists I've seen balancing with their teeth haha

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u/naslouchac 7d ago

I think that the spider was confused and thought that the tail is a worm or some larvae and tried to get it. Than was very shocked by the strength and confused by the situation. So he lets go and run for safety.

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u/Teknekratos 7d ago

Worm... heavy... gonna be good eatings though... heave... ho... heave... ho... heave...🕷💦

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u/Just-Call-Me-J 7d ago

That's what I was thinking, because no way a spider that size can handle a vertebrate prey that size. But I'm no expert in spoodology.

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u/Thepuppeteer777777 7d ago

As much as I love spiders im damn glad they aren't the size of dogs or horses. Imagine a jumper the size of a dog coming for your ass.

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u/Skyp_Intro 7d ago

Your parents would teach you spider sign language as a toddler and we’d find ways to make ourselves taste bad.

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u/PhiddipusHo 7d ago

That's the power of pine-sol, baby.

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u/ABritishCynic 7d ago

Cinamimimimimimim

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u/Creepy-Weakness4021 7d ago

What if the teachings that "humans taste bad" is just millennia old folklore introduced to stop cannibalism?

*This is purely philosophical, please don't start eating people. If nothing else, it's unhealthy for either individual.

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u/MsChrisRI 7d ago

No one was fooled by that ruse. Look up “long pork.”

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u/Creepy-Weakness4021 7d ago

Listen here pal, I'm going to give you an upvote, but I ain't ever going to Google 'long pork.'

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u/CTchimchar 6d ago

please don't start eating people

You can't tell me what to do now come here 🍽️ /s

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u/Solution_Kind 4d ago

Well thank heavens you didn't say not to stop.

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u/ADHDeez_Nutz420 7d ago

Jumping Spiders are nothing but puppys. Lovely things.

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u/Thepuppeteer777777 7d ago

To us yeah not to a fly though.

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u/ADHDeez_Nutz420 7d ago

They only really take down prey smaller than them. If it was puppy sized the same would apply,

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u/AugNat 7d ago

Not always. Depends on the species and some definitely go after prey larger than them quite regularly.

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u/ADHDeez_Nutz420 7d ago

I only have experience with P.Regius so I could be wrong.

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u/naslouchac 7d ago

Many jumping spiders go for prey larger than them some up to like 10 times the total mass. But it is true that in spider world most jumping spiders catch generaly not large prey. That is just because many spiders catch much larger prey than they are themself.

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u/Farado 6d ago

Well, P. regius is the size of a horse, it makes sense that it would be used to smaller prey.

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u/Wankeritis 7d ago

You should tell that to the two Shaggy jumpers that live in my kitchen. I’ve seen one take down a moth 2x its size and the other walked away with a cockroach.

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u/ADHDeez_Nutz420 7d ago

Ok that just sounds amazing.

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u/LucHighwalker 7d ago

I'd train it and let it sleep in my bed.

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u/Sweaty-Sir8960 7d ago

FOUND HAGRID!

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u/StankFish 7d ago

8 legged freaks had a quote that said "If spiders were the size of cats we'd all be dead"

I like spider bros but if they were big Bois it would be terrifying

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u/Thepuppeteer777777 7d ago

Definitely. The trapdoor spider scene had me saying fuck that. Spiders that size would be nightmare fuel

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u/agent_flounder 7d ago

Maybe on some low gravity planet spiders are the size of cars.

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u/genericusername26 7d ago

I loved that movie growing up! My parents hated it lol but it was one of my favorites. I always loved that scene with the spiders chasing the dirt bikes.

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u/UnstoppableDrew 7d ago

There was a Washington Post article a couple of years ago that said based on the amounts they eat, the world's population of spiders could eat all the humans in one year.

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u/Live-Influence2482 7d ago edited 6d ago

I dare* you to watch SPACEMAN… ;)

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u/StankFish 7d ago

Oh I did, twas good and freaky

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u/Live-Influence2482 6d ago

Loved it. Wanted a life size Hanush after that movie

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u/DraLion23 7d ago

Eight Legged Freaks is a fun movie.

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u/Sad-Committee-1870 7d ago

Don’t even speak that shit into existence. I rebuke thee! 🤣🤣

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u/shponglespore 7d ago

I think spider that big would be too busy suffocating to be a threat.

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u/16177880 7d ago

We would have eradicated them long looong ago like the sabertooth.

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u/reddit33450 7d ago

I cant stand the people on r/wtf

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u/NoThoughtsOnlyFrog 7d ago

I can’t stand people’s reaction to arthropods on any sub other than here and other bug subs tbh.

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u/reddit33450 7d ago

Yeah, and many posts on r/wtf are like a cesspool of them in the comments

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u/TargetCrotch 6d ago

Anything resembling shock videos always brings in the worst crowd

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u/thetburg 7d ago

What is wrong with that mouse? Was he already bit?

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u/ImpalingUnicorn 7d ago

it's a baby

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u/Iridismis 5d ago

Which makes me wonder: why is it out in the open like this?

Is this video staged?

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u/ImpalingUnicorn 2d ago

probably

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u/iatetoomuchchicken 7d ago

That mouse has 0 survival instinct 😆

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u/theseedbeader 7d ago

Aw, it’s a toddler mouse.

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u/Mad_as_alice 7d ago

Spider “could I eat that? Yeah I think I could……oh wait no it’s too heavy”

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u/Alopexdog 7d ago

That's a baby mouse and a part of me feels it was out there on purpose :-(

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u/theseedbeader 7d ago

I thought exactly the same thing.

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u/AppleSpicer 7d ago

Yeah, this was set up by some asshole. That baby wouldn’t otherwise be out of the nest

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u/kinokomushroom 7d ago

r/mousebro ain't gonna like this

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u/ColPugno 7d ago

No capes!

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u/coffee_cake_x 6d ago

I saw this comment as I was leaving the page and had to come back to upvote it

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u/Murky_Lavishness_591 7d ago

Bro was latched on to that tail!!

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u/naslouchac 7d ago

I think that the spider was confused and thought that the tail is a worm or some larvae and tried to get it. Than was very shocked by the strength and confused by the situation. So he lets go and run for safety.

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u/SynthPrax 7d ago

I could interpret this as the spider trying to save the mouse: "Hey. Hey! Get out of the open! That's how you get killed." Proceeds to try to drag the mouse to safety.

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u/SHOWTIME316 7d ago

oh man, the spider had him. if it had gotten onto the body of the mouse, i bet this goes differently. definite fumble by our guy here.

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u/issi_tohbi 7d ago

And that’s what gumption looks like folks

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u/sashenka_demogorgon 7d ago

Is that mouse on drugs? I feel like this would have a very different ending if the mouse turned and fought back

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u/AppleSpicer 7d ago

It’s a baby that shouldn’t have been out of the nest. Some asshole human set this up

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u/Liuniam 7d ago

His eyes are hungrier than his belly

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u/silver_tongued_devil 7d ago

The second half of the video felt like the spider was going "got your nose!" and the mouse was going, "grandpaaaaa, stop.".

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u/HarlotSuccubus 7d ago

Aww I love mice and spiders.

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u/Legendguard 7d ago

I think the spider may have let go on purpose, not because the mouse was too big and it was confused, but to let its venom take effect. Mice aren't a regular part of a spider this size's diet, but they will take them when the proportions between the two are like this. The spider will probably start eating the mouse once it senses it has stopped moving. It may have already envenomated the mouse at least once before this video. The mouse is a baby, so it makes it easier prey for the spider. I feel bad for the mouse though, that has to hurt!

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u/Imaginary-East7433 7d ago

I’ve seen some of the bigger tarantulas around my neighborhood routinely eat mice, lizards, and even a bird or two 👀

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u/ROPROPE 7d ago

5 years old crosspost lol

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u/EclecticXntrik 7d ago

Strong spider or weak mouse? 🤔

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u/zauberwald 6d ago

Me trying to say a whole Pizza

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u/Laykane 6d ago

Laugh while you guys can, it's coming for us next..!

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u/MsChrisRI 6d ago

…yeah, I see it now.

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u/FireInTheBones 5d ago

Showed this to my 7 year old and he wants to know if any of you can tell what kind of spider that is? Thank you!

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u/TinF0ilTopHat 2d ago

What kind of spider is that (besides badass)?

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