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Australia's huntsman fastest spider on record, new study suggests (www.abc.net.au)
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Australia's brown huntsman spiders are the fastest, according to a study, yet to be peer-reviewed, of 258 species.

According to the study, huntsman spiders can move at 3.59 metres per second.

More research is needed to confirm if there are other, faster species out there that have not been investigated.

For non-Aussies reading this, don't be afraid, a hunstman spider won't hunt you down and bite you though it might beat you in a race. It only eats insects.

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[–] 4 points 3 months ago

I would love to leave them alone but I've got a cat.

I feel like the intuition is to get the container close.. Slowly... then snap it to the ground!

Don't do this. They're faster than you realise, and you risk crushing them, even when the gap to the floor is an inch.

Just go slow the whole way. They aren't going to know to scramble through a gap once it's smaller than their height.

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