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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ahamednishadh" data-source="post: 3232145" data-attributes="member: 4368">An amazing image of a mammoth spider devouring a bird was taken in the backyard of a property near Cairns, Australia.The image, which is being cirulated via e-mail worldwide, is real, according to wildlife experts, The Cairns Post reported.The photo, believed to have been taken earlier this week, shows the spider clenching its legs around a lifeless bird trapped in a web at a property near Atherton, west of Cairns.Joel Shakespeare, the head spider keeper at NSW's Australian Reptile Park, said the spider was a golden orb weaver."Normally they prey on large insects, it's unusual to see one eating a bird," he said. Shakepeare said he had seen golden orb weaver spiders as big as a human hand but the northern species in tropical areas were known to grow larger.Shakespeare said the bird, a chestnut-breasted mannikin which appears frozen in an angel-like pose in the pictures, is likely to have flown into the web and got caught."It wouldn't eat the whole bird," he said.-FoxNews</blockquote>

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