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        "description": "<p>With a leg span nearly a foot wide, the goliath bird-eater is the world's biggest spider. And it has a special defense mechanism to keep predators from considering it as a meal.</p>", 
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        "title": "World's Weirdest: World's Biggest Spider", 
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                    "name": "Tarantula Profile"
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        "transcript": "<p>When camouflage as a defense is not an option, learn to stand your ground with the goliath bird-eating spider.</p><p>It's a tarantula with a slight PR problem.</p><p>Big? Yes.</p><p>It's nearly foot-long leg span could cover a person's head.</p><p>But bird-eating? Practically never.</p><p>It prowls the Amazon mainly in search of insects, with the occasional frog or rodent, like this one.</p><p>Fangs almost an inch long pump neurotoxins into the dying mouse.</p><p>The spider hauls it back to its burrow, liquefying the insides before sucking its meal dry.</p><p>But this fearsome predator has predators of its own.</p><p>There are some mammals and snakes that would make short work of it...and it can't hide if it doesn't even know they are there-its eyesight is poor.</p><p>But this one's luck, though, is spot on.</p><p>Usually, the spider relies on vibration-sensitive hairs to warn it of danger.</p><p>Tonight, danger takes the form of a coati. The spider bares its fangs, warning-back off or be bitten. But the coati isn't frightened.</p><p>The spider needs a long-range weapon. Fortunately it has one-many actually.</p><p>Other hairs on its body are tipped with tiny stinging barbs.</p><p>By rubbing its legs, it flicks them up into the air in a cloud of miniature missiles. Like tiny slivers, they burn eyes, nose and mouth.</p><p>The coati's appetite is gone. And so is the goliath bird-eater.</p>", 
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