This was Sandbag, he’s a camel spider and I could only really post these pictures from his travel tub because the others are pretty gory or blurry, these were taken a bit over a year ago
I really really love camel spiders but they just don’t do well in captivity and there just isn’t enough research yet
#while doing research I found they’ve got a really wild reputation#apparently they eat camels#and they supposedly run 10mph#and they do in fact chase your shadow in the desert to get away from the sun#there’s a funny video of a group of soldiers being scared by one#like actual soldiers are scared of these#they’ve got a nasty bite but not deadly#they chew into food too#seriously just google myths about them it’s wild
Does he have a weird bird beak?
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