A Bird-Eating Spider

Dear God.

Back when I worked at Noah's Ark, we sometimes got a Peruvian Bird-Eating Spider. They looked like black tarantulas the size of a catcher's mitt.

This is way creepier, 'cause it looks like a huge, mutated version of a normal orb spider you might find in any garden.

Thanks to Jane Tara for sending me this.

I consider it just one more piece of evidence that Australia is a bizarre place just a step or two shy of Skull Island.

My only hope is the person who took this picture promptly put down the camera and got a flame-thrower.