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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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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How big does a human hand thriving in the UK get?

[–] PlasticLove@lemmy.today 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] tuck182@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

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