Dennis Nedry
Arachnodemon
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I don't see how the Hogna looks bulkier. They are almost identical.
Again, you're missing the point. My point is not that huntsmen can hunt mice whereas wolf spiders cannot, it's that wolf spiders are less likely to injure the huntsman if it were to attack either.
Mice will absolutely injure a snake, to say otherwise is stupid. Look up snake killed or injured by mouse, one of the first results is about somebody's two foot snake that had been injured by a feeder mouse. Also, usually you would feed rats to snakes that are larger than those that are being fed on mice. As for tarantulas, maybe think about how thick the abdomen of a tarantula is and then look at mice chewing wood. If a rat can kill a decent-sized python or boa then why couldn't a mouse kill something smaller? Why do you think wild snakes often have rodent scars?
Variables we see in nature make a massive difference. There is space to run away, it might occur thousands of times over rather than twice, the wolf spider might be in an ambush position in its burrow or the huntsman would be in an ambush position on a tree stump, etc, etc. How doesn't it make a difference?
Again, the huntsman does not look 50% larger as you said.
I'm sorry, correct me if I'm wrong, but the abdomen makes up most of the wolf spider's mass in comparison to the rest of it. How would the huntsman feeding on the wolf spider make no difference?
You were talking about the first video? Yeah, excuse my awful reading skills while we ignore the fact that in neither video does the huntsman drop onto the wolf spider, in the first video it runs straight into the wolf spider. Running into and trying to push the wolf spider away with its legs doesn't equal dropping. The huntsman in the second video does the exact same thing when it tries pushing the wolf spider away.
TheSnark posted a picture of a huntsman eating a wolf spider, then you said the huntsman is 50% larger. Its not. That is your evidence, and simple logic should tell you that 2 videos taking place in a jar is not evidence for what happens thousands of times over in the wild and that a huntsman is fully capable of eating a wolf spider, again, why wouldn't it be capable of doing so?
I'm not ignoring your posts, which have ignored? And you still didn't explain it, why not?
If I'm such a potato then please explain why you comment an opinion and then when you're shown something that contradicts it you don't say anything? You said that Tasmanicosa and Hogna aren't nearly as similar as I was saying, then I posted two pictures of pretty average spiders that have an almost identical build and you say "yeah, the Hogna still looks a little bit bulkier" right after you were saying they weren't nearly that similar.
