If you like ants with pet aphids, how about tarantulas with tiny frogs?
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/tiny-frogs-and-giant-spiders-best-of-friends/
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@mira_l_b It’s funny this discussion is reminding me of Professor Blathers from the video game “Animal Crossing”. Long story short for those of you who’ve avoided that game (and I recommend avoiding it if possible!), Blathers is an owl who is the director of a natural history museum (yeah… makes perfect sense). Thing is Blathers HATES insects and other “bugs”, yet he happens to be very knowledgeable about them.
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House centipedes still scare me. It’s cause they are so fast I think.
https://www.familyhandyman.com/pest-control/heres-why-you-should-never-kill-a-house-centipede/
But they are pretty amazing animals if you think about it more.
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I’ve seen photos of those! Also very cool lol
I remember one time when mum was screaming because there was a spider in her bathroom (it was about 10 cm from leg to leg). Anyway, I let it crawl on my hand and walked it about 50 metres to a small local forest patch and released it. She couldn’t believe that I just picked it up like that!
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YouTube has been suggesting episodes of Bondi Vet to me recently. One episode had a project to count toadlets via pit traps, and they’d occasionally get a funnel web spider in the same trap. Apparently, the spiders never bothered eating or attacking the toadlets.
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