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  • Cowicide

    I think a dachshund hiding in the sand awaiting a stray cheeseburger is cuter.

  • http://docpop.org/ DocPop

    This is how I feel at the beginning of any new game of Minecraft.

  • Jesse Chapman

    This is terrifying.

  • mhsenkow

    Jesse: You should see the three foot wide ones that pray on children. 

    • eldritch

      Religious arachnids using juveniles of apex mammalian predator as altars? Science is going to have a field day with that!

    • CLamb

       Does God pay more attention to prayers offered from atop children?

  • Jan Henning Berg

    It is sometimes hilarious to see to what other videos youtube refers at the end.

    This time, it’s the perverted dog:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=NH1dh_ZCYpc&NR=1

  • anansi133

    The cute factor is greatly enhanced when you outmass the spider by several orders of magnitude. If I were the same size as that spider, it wouldn’t be cute at all.

    (I wonder what other behaviors would appear cute if I were much bigger than I am now?)

    • Jerril

       Most of my cats behaviour is cute because I’m over 20 times her weight. Mouse or rat sized, most of the kitty play I find so adorable wouldn’t be nearly as cute…

  • mappo

    So that’s settled then – I’m never taking my shoes off again.

  • http://imcravingpresidency.tumblr.com/ SedanChair

    If you’re an ant, and you see a couple of legs sticking out of the sand, and you hear Bad Company playing in the background, beware.

  • Velocirapt42

    My dog does something similar if the quilts are bunched up on our bed. This is proof of evolutionism.

  • OgilvyTheAstronomer

    “Sand Spider Builds a Burrow” totally sounds like the title of a children’s book.