Giant spider snapped eating bird | The Daily Telegraph

Giant spider snapped eating bird | The Daily Telegraph: "THIS amazing image of a mammoth spider devouring a bird was taken in the backyard of a property near Cairns.

The image, which is being cirulated via email worldwide, is real, according to wildlife experts, The Cairns Post reported.

The photo, believed to have been taken earlier this week, shows the spider clenching its legs around a lifeless bird trapped in a web at a property near Atherton, west of Cairns.

Joel Shakespeare, the head spider keeper at NSW's Australian Reptile Park, told ninemsn the spider was a golden orb weaver"

It doesn't look like the golden orb weavers I've worked with!!!