Cordyceps infected tarantula
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  • 76 points revolutionary-90

    At first I thought it was a crab

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    12 points kwtransporter66

    Technically you were close.

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    8 points Whiskey_Neato

    A land crab, if you will

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    4 points RampaginPoptart

    COCONUT CRAB!

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    2 points OdysseusRex69

    Cancerifification of EVERRRRRRYTHIIING

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  • 42 points the_good_hodgkins

    It's the last of him.

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  • 25 points Mountain_Egg16

    Brazilian wandering spider with cordycepts

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    10 points EffortCommon2236

    Brazilian wandering spider with cordycepts

    Brazilian raging boner spider with cordyceps

    FTFY

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    0 points Legeto

    Is this a reference something I’m not getting or just a random penis joke?

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    9 points EffortCommon2236

    The name of that spider in Brazilian Portuguese means boner spider. That is an accident and coincidence of the language, not a typo nor innuendo. The words that make up its name got their current meaning independently from the fact that its bite causes acute priapism in humans (look it up).

    Anyway, the literal translation of its name to English can be either arming spider (the most correct and direct, and it's as in: it gets your dick armed and ready), or pitching spider (less correct, and as in: it gets your tent pitched). The original meaning in Portuguese is due to the spider assuming an aggressive stance when threatened (an "armed" stance).

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    2 points mshab356

    I think the wandering spider’s venom can give you an extreme erection lasting hours or days or something.

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    2 points OdinAlfadir1978

    Baboon spider I think

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  • 25 points Rhaj-no1992

    Invertebrates live the hardest lives and die in the most horrible ways imaginable.

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    10 points ojdhaze

    Very good point. What a way to go..

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    4 points JusticeForSocko

    It somewhat comforts me to think that most invertebrates are basically NPC instinct machines with no complex thought or emotion, because yikes is their world horrifying!

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    2 points ShiratakiPoodles

    How do you know?

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    1 points JusticeForSocko

    I guess I kind of assume it based on the low number of neurons that they have in their brains. Cephalopods like octopus are an obvious exception to this, but they have about 500 million neurons in their brains, which is similar in number to a small mammal. Most invertebrates have less than 1 million.

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    3 points ShiratakiPoodles

    Right, but bees for example have been shown in studies to like to play for the sake of having fun & have unique personalities. Maube it's not the amount of neurons, but the experience of living that makes something concious. Though, nobody can know for sure

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    1 points JusticeForSocko

    That is true. Bees are on the higher level for arthropods I think. To a certain degree, it's how the brain is wired. I remember reading something about a biologist who was working with crickets and he accidentally injured one. At first, he felt bad, but then the cricket started eating itself. It's hard, because it's a continuum between animals that do act purely on instinct and animals varying levels of complexity in thought and emotion.

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  • 20 points forestshrub

    oh lawd he comin

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  • 8 points your-x-ray

    Makes that TV show seem a bit too real...

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  • 4 points OdinAlfadir1978

    Baboon spider of some sort, poor thing

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  • 5 points deejay_harry1

    They have a Joel and an Ellie?

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  • 3 points Practical_Smell_4244

    Amazing how fungi makes delecouis cheese for me also torments and tortures other creatures like this

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  • 2 points guillermotor

    I know it's a tarantula, but since it looks like a crab, Can cordyceps infect crabs?

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    1 points Legeto

    Yep

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  • 2 points ryo0ka

    Sick album cover for 2026

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  • 1 points HotnPersuasive

    This is straight-up nightmare fuel, and I love it.

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  • 1 points Important-Math-837

    Spidercrab sounds like the shittiest B movie ever made and I'm here for it

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