Skeletor voice:” I’m gonna grab ya, NYAA!”
I mean, i’m leaving the fucker alone if it so much as waves at me.
freaky arms.
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a true outlaw star fan, obviously.
Yoink!
> Other scorpions
The tailless whip scorpion (also the whip-spiders) are not scorpions (order Scorpiones). They’re order Amblypygi.
I know this, and you know this, but MEME
Doesn’t pygi mean butt in science Greek? And ambly means walk. Do they walk on their butts?
You’re close. It means blunt tail. You might be thinking of the Latin ambulo which means to walk. I do want to see what a tail-walker looks like now, though.
no i reject your reality and substitute my own it is funnier
also they bite like motherfuckers
Grab’n’bite
I think you are thinking of Vinegaroons - they spray you with acetic acid. AFAIK, amblypigids skewer their prey on arm spikes
Mmm. Vinegar!
*quick series of searches*
wait you’re right. I don’t think I was thinking of either of these. a childhood friend had various bugs as pets and would point out which ones liked to chomp. I may be lost now without his teaching
is it like good vinegar or does it taste like bugs
Cool bros
Long arm Larry irl
Here’s a little bigger one. Real person, real video, no AI:
That was actually a fun video to watch. Such a freaky creature.
yeah, tho it worries me that people are keeping these things as pets, because the pet market is terrible about running species wild populations into the ground
I don’t like it one bit. I don’t want this thing grabbing onto me.
Domain Expansion!
Reminds me of the long armed enemy in Little Nightmares.
CRUCIO!
My cat brought one of these home when we lived in central America. I had no idea what it was, and I was terrified - I refused to believe the internet when they told me they were harmless and not venomous. It was a scary looking little alien.
The one pictured is much more open and spread out. Obviously getting carried in a cat’s mouth would put a tiny little creature like this in defense mode - mine was much more compact and I didn’t realize it was a spider / scorpion.
Fun fact: as opposed to humans, spider legs are curled inwards by default, and they need to put in effort if they want to stretch/extend them. This is the reason dead spider legs are curled up - lacking extra force, they return to their natural position. Some weird hydraulics.
I can imagine the same happens to scorpions. 🎸
Me when I fucking GET you
