TARANTULA'S . BITE
Professor P. W. Fattig, curator of the Emory University Museum in Atlanta, Georgia (U.S.A.), made a largo tarantula from Honduras bite him. Professor Fattig said that he made the experiment partly out of curiosity and partly to prove his contention that the bites of such insects aro not necessarily fatal (says "Popular Science"). It took about half an hour's poking to make the supposedly vicious croature bite. Then it hung on to the professor's thumb with a bulldog grip for about three minutes before it was pried off. Professor Fattig said that the bite was two or three times as painful as the sting of a bee, and that his thumb felt about three times its normal size. There were no other ill-effects, and the swelling soon disappeared.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 60, 8 September 1931, Page 14
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130TARANTULA'S . BITE Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 60, 8 September 1931, Page 14
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