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Bagheera kiplingi

This spider was named Bagheera kiplingi after Bagheera, the black panther character in The Jungle Book, and the book’s author Rudyard Kipling. It was seemingly named because of it’s panther-like agility, which is common to all jumping spiders. However, while all the other known jumping spiders are predators, Bagheera is almost completely vegetarian, feeding almost exclusively on acacia buds and nectar. They use their agility to escape the aggressive ants that usually protect acacia trees from other animals. Occasionally, the Bagheera spider feeds on ant larvae, and even, if very hungry, on other Bagheeras (it’s still a spider, after all!) Funnily enough, there is a chapter in The Jungle Book in which, during a period of food scarcity, Bagheera the panther claims that he hopes he could be a vegetarian!

wow... hes a cute un.

deb "after looking at the other pictures I believe this picture is the wrong one for the article...." Hes still a cut un.
 
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hennible said:
And I'm glad I live in a place with no venomous snakes...
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you do have a snake that is both mildly venomous and mildly poisonous, the grass snake. It s rear fanged and it's venom is so mild that even if it did envenomate you, you would not be able to tell the difference between the sting of the venom and the sting of those sharp little teeth. It is only recently scientists even realized the common grass and ribbon snake was venomous!
 

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