The red-backed spider challenges one of the world's most venous snakes, and the two bite each other, but the ending is unexpected?
In March 2016, a couple living in Australia witnessed a "fight" near their home, and the two sides of the battle were not people, but two animals, a spider and a snake, and the winner was actually the spider named the redback spider, and the snake that was successfully hunted was the highly venomous eastern cobra.
The spider wrapped its sticky web around the cobra, and it was too much to resist and could not break free, although the spider was bitten but it didn't seem to have any effect, and the spider was still enjoying the meal when they went to see it again the next day.
Australia's "inhabitant" eastern cobra seems to be more eye-catching, and this highly venomous snake is widely distributed on Australian soil, and it is almost always present in relatively dry environments.
The size of this snake is much larger than that of a spider, and it can grow to more than one and a half meters when it reaches adulthood, and the coagulant in its venom causes the blood of the bitten person to slowly coagulate when it flows into contact with the venom, causing great damage to the body.
They eat a variety of birds and small mammals, and do not seem to actively contact humans, but for humans, when they become neighbors, the danger increases, and in Australia the number of human deaths caused by this snake is high, and sometimes after the attack is not satisfied, so they carry out multiple attacks.
But the red-backed spider doesn't look too big, but it has a deadly poison hidden in them, and its signature feature is the red mark on the back of its abdomen, which makes it instantly recognizable.
If you are bitten by this guy, the pain after the bite is inevitable, the wound will generally slowly swell, the pain is abnormal, and the serious will also lead to a coma, but the strange thing is that although the redback spider is so "vicious", it rarely causes death.
This little guy is a ruthless "domestic abuser" in terms of feelings, because they are a relatively rare cannibalistic spider, many times female redback spiders will mercilessly prey on male spiders after mating, but for most male spiders may not be able to get this treatment, most of them will die on their own before breeding offspring.
In fact, what you may not know is that in Australia, this snake often becomes the food of the red-backed spider, on the one hand, the venom of this spider is very deadly to these snakes, and the snake's ability to move is greatly limited under the auxiliary entanglement of spider silk, which makes these snakes difficult to parry, and at the beginning this spider preyed on small snakes that have not grown up, not adults.
Why can't a snake break free from the thin spider silk?
Spider silk combines strength and toughness, and some say that it can even stretch for long lengths without breaking compared to high-strength carbon fibers and other substances, so it is difficult for smaller snakes to break free.
Source: China Youth Network 2016-03-24 "Poisonous Spiders Prey on Cobras: Biting Each Other and the Results Are Too Unexpected"
