>evolves to produce a venom that only kills humans
No. That's absolute fricking nonsense. The venom kills their natural prey.
Same with every other deadly snake/spider/scorpion/whateverthefrick.
The toxin in the venom of Sydney funnel webs that’s responsible for extreme toxicity in humans has nothing to do with killing their prey. It’s absent in females/juveniles who still need venom to subdue prey, and only present in mature males who live short lives and hardly eat anyways
It's a defensive adaptation against predation from certain vertebrates. The males are wandering around the females stay in their burrowes where they're not exposed to predation as much.
Why are so many of these dangerous animals in Australia? I get the isolation evolution thing but why did so many of them turn out so deadly compared to the rest of the world?
Natural selection, the less agressive and milder ones were all eaten by abbos until it evolved into the hyper defensive highlight venomous beastie we know and love today.
Hi I don't visit Wauf often I hope you guys don't mind me asking this here: >Spiders usually have eight eyes but few have good eyesight.
Why have 8 eyes and still have poor eyesight? How does this happen? They have 8 legs and and have great motility.
For the most part the eyes are like motion sensors to detect when they should hide.
Spiders that don't make webs actually have pretty good eyesight because they have to hunt instead of waiting for bugs to fly into a web.
>Hi I don't visit Wauf often
do you use the word "motility" wrong every time you visit? Because that's been happening a lot lately. Particularly in paleschizo posts
Wandering males will turn up in shoes. A big one could maybe get a fang through a thinner shoe, not something like a leather boot though
Hi I don't visit Wauf often I hope you guys don't mind me asking this here: >Spiders usually have eight eyes but few have good eyesight.
Why have 8 eyes and still have poor eyesight? How does this happen? They have 8 legs and and have great motility.
It doesn’t really matter if you have a lot of eyes or not if they’re all small and underdeveloped
when I was a kid I stayed with some family friends in sydney. one time everyone excitedly went out to go and jump in the pool. I went to follow them only to find them all coming back in looking disappointed
"can't go swimming, there's spiders in the pool"
turns out when it gets hot these frickers like to just climb into swimming pools and hang out at the bottom
sydney, not even once
1. The venom affected other animals physiologically similar to humans that are now extinct
2. The venom only required minor changes to target humans, and the animal lived around humans long enough for that to happen
3. The animal evolved around humans but then migrated to a place with no humans, only to have humans later follow it.
4. The animal evolved around humans and traveled with them to places where neither previously existed
5. The specificity of the venom is a coincidence.
6. The venom affects lots of other animals, we just haven't tested all of them yet
>evolves to produce a venom that only kills humans
No. That's absolute fricking nonsense. The venom kills their natural prey.
Same with every other deadly snake/spider/scorpion/whateverthefrick.
The toxin in the venom of Sydney funnel webs that’s responsible for extreme toxicity in humans has nothing to do with killing their prey. It’s absent in females/juveniles who still need venom to subdue prey, and only present in mature males who live short lives and hardly eat anyways
It's a defensive adaptation against predation from certain vertebrates. The males are wandering around the females stay in their burrowes where they're not exposed to predation as much.
gay spider
they did it on purpose so they could have an easy life getting milked by BBF bawds
Why are so many of these dangerous animals in Australia? I get the isolation evolution thing but why did so many of them turn out so deadly compared to the rest of the world?
pressure to survive abbos and whatever invasive species the chinese dropped in there
Natural selection, the less agressive and milder ones were all eaten by abbos until it evolved into the hyper defensive highlight venomous beastie we know and love today.
>and love
That’s a stretch
>eaten by abbos
ofc those freaks eat spiders
Your ancestors probably did too, don't be obtuse.
Hi I don't visit Wauf often I hope you guys don't mind me asking this here:
>Spiders usually have eight eyes but few have good eyesight.
Why have 8 eyes and still have poor eyesight? How does this happen? They have 8 legs and and have great motility.
For the most part the eyes are like motion sensors to detect when they should hide.
Spiders that don't make webs actually have pretty good eyesight because they have to hunt instead of waiting for bugs to fly into a web.
>Hi I don't visit Wauf often
do you use the word "motility" wrong every time you visit? Because that's been happening a lot lately. Particularly in paleschizo posts
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Is that a Sydney Funnel Web? Is it true they can punch a hole in peoples shoes with their fangs? Or is it that they like to hide in shoes?
Hiding in people's shoes.
Yes, the humans feet when already clad in footwear are completely immune, though inferior in quantity.
Wandering males will turn up in shoes. A big one could maybe get a fang through a thinner shoe, not something like a leather boot though
It doesn’t really matter if you have a lot of eyes or not if they’re all small and underdeveloped
when I was a kid I stayed with some family friends in sydney. one time everyone excitedly went out to go and jump in the pool. I went to follow them only to find them all coming back in looking disappointed
"can't go swimming, there's spiders in the pool"
turns out when it gets hot these frickers like to just climb into swimming pools and hang out at the bottom
sydney, not even once
already discussed in the newt thread
1. The venom affected other animals physiologically similar to humans that are now extinct
2. The venom only required minor changes to target humans, and the animal lived around humans long enough for that to happen
3. The animal evolved around humans but then migrated to a place with no humans, only to have humans later follow it.
4. The animal evolved around humans and traveled with them to places where neither previously existed
5. The specificity of the venom is a coincidence.
6. The venom affects lots of other animals, we just haven't tested all of them yet
take your pick
I bet on a combination of 4, 5 and 6, but changing 6 to
>The venom may affect other animals, we just haven't tested all of them yet
what was number 8 again?
>what was number 8 again?
>venom evolved to kill homosexuals and OP is a homosexual
that’s just AIDS
not HIV
ah yes, the forbidden glory hole makers
>forbidden
All the more reason to use them
Because frick you. Thats why.