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Tarantulas<br />

Tarantulas are large, hairy spiders. Most are black or brown. Some<br />

have been known to live for 30 years!<br />

Did you know that the largest tarantulas are longer than a ruler?<br />

<strong>The</strong>y have a tiny claw on the end of each of their eight hairy legs.<br />

<strong>The</strong>se help them to climb.<br />

Some live in burrows under the ground. Others live on the ground<br />

under rocks, bark or logs. Some even live in trees.<br />

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Tarantulas are meat eaters. <strong>The</strong>y like to eat insects, other spiders and<br />

small lizards. Larger tarantulas also eat frogs, snakes and small birds.<br />

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<strong>The</strong>y kill their prey with a poisonous bite. <strong>The</strong>n they crush them with<br />

their strong jaws. Most tarantulas don’t wait in their web to catch their<br />

prey. <strong>The</strong>y run after them and catch them!<br />

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A tarantula’s bite is like a bee or wasp sting to a human being. It is<br />

good to know that if one bit a person, he or she would not die!<br />

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