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<blockquote data-quote="Chubbs" data-source="post: 60922" data-attributes="member: 1084"><p>That's actually how <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araneomorphae" target="_blank">araneomorph</a>s (true spiders) eat. Even young mygalomorphs feed the same way that adults do, they just often don't eat the entire thing if the prey item is larger, and the bolus of prey items is obviously going to be smaller and more difficult to locate. Tarantulas, like any mygalomorph eat by secreting digestive enzymes while macerating (chewing) the prey, which they mash up into a sort of "soup" which they then slurp up, and the undigested parts are filtered out in the prcoess, and become part of the bolus.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chubbs, post: 60922, member: 1084"] That's actually how [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araneomorphae']araneomorph[/URL]s (true spiders) eat. Even young mygalomorphs feed the same way that adults do, they just often don't eat the entire thing if the prey item is larger, and the bolus of prey items is obviously going to be smaller and more difficult to locate. Tarantulas, like any mygalomorph eat by secreting digestive enzymes while macerating (chewing) the prey, which they mash up into a sort of "soup" which they then slurp up, and the undigested parts are filtered out in the prcoess, and become part of the bolus. [/QUOTE]
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