Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 27, 2018

… and all the other spiders are sick of the guilt trips.

So where does one find that no-meat arachnid?

bagheera kiplingi

https://www.britannica.com/animal/Bagheera-kiplingi

The number of combinations for the card deck is about 8 with 67 zeroes.

That spider must feel awfully silly waiting for a cauliflower to fly into its web.

Dylan McWilliams needs to stop wearing his bacon cologne.

That’s because the poor hungry bear didn’t really attack him. Poor bear was only asking for food, but the fiendish media have to hype everything into sensational news.

Wow. A guest appearance today by both Baloo and Bagheera.

Dylan should stop using that Chum Hair Gel.

Rudyard, Bagheera’s housemate, got him into this. Snob.

I believe I had one of these visit a few mornings in a row while vacationing in Costa Rica. I even took photos of him. He would jump from the coffee table onto my leg and crawl around for a while and then jump back onto the table. He didn’t seem intimidated at all. He appeared intelligent, almost like he wanted to communicate.

If Dylan asks me to go on vacation, I’m going to tell him I’m busy.

Fortunately, Dylan was at a beach near a forested area. Not sure whether the shark ate the bear, or vice versa.

Dylan you need to stay home.

Very rough estimate: There are more card rearrangements than atoms within 1000 light years of the earth.

I wonder if it was named after Rudyard Kipling, and Bagheera from the Jungle Book, Kipling wrote? Anyone know? :)

It is not 100% vegetarian. They do eat ant larvae.

https://www.livescience.com/5759-rare-vegetarian-spider-discovered.html

The thing that makes it hard to believe about Dylan is that he was in the forest when he was attacked by the shark and in the ocean when he was attacked by the bear.

Apparently Bagheera Kiplingi is not the only spider that will eat plants.

http://blog.therainforestsite.com/cs-vegetarian-spiders/

must be tough to build a web that will catch veggies…

Didn’t someone else hit the strifecta by being attacked by a snake, a bear & a shark?

@THE1951Hapster, and all: Dylan did all 3 in 3 years! From the online site of National Geographic, a link: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/04/odds-of-man-bit-shark-bear-snake-dylan-mcwilliams-animals-spd/

Man Bitten by Shark, Bear, and Snake Had Odds of 893 Quadrillion to OneOutdoor enthusiast Dylan McWilliams has had a rough few years, but he isn’t turning his back on nature. (Entire article follows)