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Spider With Three Super Powers | The Hunt | BBC Earth
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Known for eating other spiders, Portia is a genus of the jumping spider that is able to leap up to 50 times her own body length. Captured by stunning close up footage, we get to witness this amazing spider use its super powers to dine on prey three times her size.
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8,513,628 views
BBC Earth
6.95M subscribers
Published on Jul 2, 2017
Known for eating other spiders, Portia is a genus of the jumping spider that is able to leap up to 50 times her own body length. Captured by stunning close up footage, we get to witness this amazing spider use its super powers to dine on prey three times her size.
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Spider With Three Super Powers (BBC Earth) (Original Post)
sl8
May 2020
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cayugafalls
(5,640 posts)2. That is an incredible adaptation. Wow.
Glad it is small and attacks other spiders.
Solly Mack
(90,766 posts)3. Really needed the Mission Impossible theme.
Portia is very cool. Scary, but cool.
softydog88
(126 posts)4. Oh, that is so cool!
And I agree with the MI theme. I was thinking it looked like Tom Cruise during its descent.
Lord Ludd
(585 posts)5. That spider is not itsy bitsy enough for me.
I watched up to the prey-stalking part & then bounced.