{"id":45282,"date":"2025-08-04T19:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/45282\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T19:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:25:08","slug":"her-hungry-spiderlings-descend-en-masse-to-their-mothers-dinner-table-only-this-time-she-is-the-main-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/45282\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHer hungry spiderlings descend en masse to their mother\u2019s dinner table\u2026 only this time, she is the main course\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Previously-unseen dietary habits of the African social spider have been filmed for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/people\/david-attenborough-facts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Attenborough<\/a>-narrated BBC series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/tv\/parenthood-bbc-nature-documentary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Parenthood<\/a> \u2013 and it makes for gruesome viewing.<\/p>\n<p>The series documents the lengths that animals will go to during the challenge of raising the next generation. <\/p>\n<p>In Namibia, the African social spider lives with around 50 of her sisters and lays up to 50 eggs. Once the spiderlings begin to hatch, the mother feeds them with a milk-like substance made from her own disintegrating insides. <\/p>\n<p>But now there are thousands of hungry spiderlings in need of prey \u2013 and their mother makes her final sacrifice.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>More amazing wildlife videos<\/p>\n<p>Top image: An African Social Spider mother sacrifices herself to her hungry and growing spiderlings in Namibia, from episode 1 of Parenthood. Credit: BBC\/Silverback Films\/Tharina Bird<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Previously-unseen dietary habits of the African social spider have been filmed for the David Attenborough-narrated BBC series Parenthood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-45282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}