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A beautiful video by @ectotherm_aesthetics Thank you for sharing Clemens. Be sure to extend your support by visiting this beautiful gallery and photographer. How Tarantulas Digest Their Food Tarantulas are fascinating creatures, and their digestive system is no exception. They have a unique way of digesting their food that allows them to eat prey that is much larger than their own head. Tarantulas have a short, straw-shaped mouth that can only suck. This means that anything they eat must be in liquid form. Prey with large amounts of solid parts, such as mice, must be crushed and ground up or predigested, which is accomplished by coating the prey with digestive juices secreted from openings in the jaws. The tarantula’s digestive organ (stomach) is a tube that runs the length of its body. In the prosoma, this tube is wider and forms the sucking stomach. When the sucking stomach’s powerful muscles contract, the stomach is increased in cross-section, creating a strong sucking action that permits the tarantula to suck its liquefied prey up through the mouth and into the intestines. Once the liquefied food enters the intestines, it is broken down into particles small enough to pass through the intestine walls into the hemolymph (blood stream), where it is distributed throughout the body. After feeding, the leftovers are formed into a small ball by the tarantula and thrown away. #tarantula #chilobrachys #spidersofinstagram #predators #arthropods #nature #natureisbeautiful #naturevideos #planetearth #learnmore #educationalcontent #natureawareness #lovenature #biodiversity