Natal brown birdeater
Acanthoscurria natalensis
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersRainforests and jungles8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The Natal brown birdeater is a big, hairy, dark brown tarantula from Brazil. It lives on the ground, not up in the trees. It looks almost exactly like a cousin of its, so even scientists have to look very closely to tell them apart.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Northeastern Brazil, on the ground
What does it eat?
Like other tarantulas, it hunts insects and other small animals on the ground.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Natal brown birdeater about 1.5 km/h (0.93 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It is a ground-living tarantula, so it spends its life on and under the ground instead of in trees.
2
It is almost a twin of another tarantula called Acanthoscurria chacoana. Scientists tell them apart by tiny body parts of the males.
3
Even though tarantulas like it are called birdeaters, they mostly eat insects.
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Most asked questions about Natal brown birdeater
?Where does the Natal brown birdeater live?
In the northeast of Brazil, where it lives on the ground.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Acanthoscurria natalensis
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- South America
Where the facts come from
- Acanthoscurria natalensis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Ana Caroline Lima. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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