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Chester zoo worked with the RSPB to raise hundreds of baby spiders, keeping them separate in test tubes so that they did not eat one another.

The spiders were hand-fed with tweezers in the zoo’s bio-secure breeding facility until they were big enough to be released into the wild.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

About a footlong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Nah, they're not much bigger than a newborn rat.