VIDEO: Real Tarantula Prank on Girlfriend
This guy’s girlfriend got the scare of her life when she found herself in the bathroom with a large tarantula.
The world is divided in two major categories of people – the pranksters and the ones that absolutely hate practical jokes.
You may think it’s cruel to prank people, basically making fun of their phobias, but the truth is we all need a good laughter for time to time.
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After all, they say laughter is the best medicine and some people actually have a sense of humor, in which case they probably won’t get mad.
What would you do if someone approached you with a huge tarantula?
According to Live Science, as the world’s largest spiders, tarantulas are both feared and beloved. There are more than 850 species of these often hairy, nocturnal arachnids. Tarantulas live primarily in the tropical, subtropical, and desert areas of the world, with the majority found in South America.
In the United States, tarantulas are found in southwestern states. Despite their fearsome appearance, tarantulas are not threatening to humans. Their venom is milder than a honeybee and though painful, their bites are not harmful. In fact, tarantulas have become a popular pet for arachnophiles around the world.
Female tarantulas can live up to 30 years, while males live for a much shorter time, around seven years.
Tarantulas primarily eat insects, though some species enjoy larger game like frogs, mice and small lizards.
Most terrestrial species of tarantulas are burrowers. Unlike many spider species, tarantulas do not use webs to catch their prey. They do, however, spin silk. If a tarantula lives in a place with dry soil, it will burrow into the ground and line the walls of the hole with silk to help keep sand and dirt out.
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If a tarantula does not burrow, it might spin a burrow out of silk, or live under a log or rock. Sometimes, tarantulas spin a line of silk near the entrance to a burrow, which, reports National Geographic, acts as a trip wire, alerting the spider to prey that is nearing its home.
When prey comes close, tarantulas ambush it, seize it with their legs, paralyze it with venom, and then kill it with their fangs. They can also crush prey with their strong jaws. After the prey is dead, tarantulas inject digestive enzymes into the prey to liquefy the body and suck it up through their straw-like mouths.
Sewlal described tarantulas’ distinctive mating ritual. Before he can mate, the male spins a “small special web” and sprays it with sperm.
Afterward, he rubs himself on the web, loading his pedipalps with it. He then searches for a female’s burrow, using the pheromones she gives off as a guide. When a male tarantula finds a female burrow, he “taps his foot to alert the female to his presence.”
If she is receptive, she will emerge from her burrow, and the male will begin a series of courtship displays, including lowering the front of his body, raising his abdomen, shaking his pedipalps, and moving back and forth. If she is not interested, Sewlal said, she will either “attack him or pay no attention to him.”
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