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Snake Vs spider! Redback traps Brown Snake in it's web
- Published_at:2015-03-02
- Category:News & Politics
- Channel:WorldViralVids
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- description: Snake vs spider smackdown! The moment a giant red-back LIFTS an eastern brown off the ground and hurls it into its web in 'mindboggling' battle royale Enormous red back spider lifts a baby eastern brown snake off the ground The spider then 'hurls it' up into its nest under farmer's wife's car 'It was just mindboggling,' said Goorac farmer Neale Postlethwaite 'I can't believe it was actually able to hurl it backwards into its nest' This is the moment one of Australia's deadliest creatures found itself at the mercy of yet another of the nation's venomous killers. A Victorian farmer was astonished to find an enormous red-back spider had lifted an eastern brown snake off the ground and 'hurled it' into its web under one of the family's car at the weekend. 'It's just mindboggling,' said Neale Postlethwaite, a farmer of 20 years from Goorac, north of Melbourne. 'I can't believe it was actually able to stop it and then hurl it up backwards into its nest.' Mr Postlethwaite found the baby snake suspended off the ground on Saturday evening, the large spider sitting on top. To his surprise, the snake was still alive at the time, with the farmer daring to place his finger nearby. 'I thought the snake was dead and went to put my finger there and the snake was still alive at the time,' Mr Postlethwaite said. The eastern brown snake is known for its potent venom, which can cause sudden death, neurotoxity, coagulation disturbances and nephrotoxicity, according to researchers. But this baby snake was presumably a victim of the spider's poison. The snake died overnight, with Mr Postlethwaite finding its corpse being devoured by ants in the dust the next day. Mr Postlethwaite told Daily Mail Australia his family often found redbacks on their property. This particular creature had been living under his wife's car. She is a little reticent about getting back behind the wheel, the farmer said. 'My wife doesn't want to drive her car until she can get an underbody car wash,' he joked.
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