Wednesday, September 2, 2009

9/2/2009 Las Cruces Biological Field Station, Costa Rica

Possibly the freakiest bit of arachnid behavior I've seen. Big guy was already firmley in jaws of little one when I stumbled across them, so I don't know if the little one found the big one dead or killed him. This was a slightly cloudy day, on a pair of concrete stairs going down from dining hall terrace within the central compound of the botanical gardens, right before noon. The smaller spider basically just sat sucking out of the bigger one, did not respond much to human presense.

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