A Tarantula Spider, Clay Model from the Smithsonian

Tallulah Tarantula, a clay model, created for a video that demonstrates how tarantulas see, hear, taste and smell.  A suitor, who has come to court her, has given her a box of chocolate flies.

Photo by Chip Clark
Clay animation by Olive jar, Inc.

National Museum of Natural History, Spider Exhibit

the sender wrote:

The Smithsonian was incredible!!
the spiders were gross.
2001