Interestingly, there are spiders that will consume small mammals like mice and even snakes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_birdeater http://en.wikipedia.

Interestingly, there are spiders that will consume small mammals like mice and even snakes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_birdeater http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_birdeater Their primary diet isn't birds as the name might suggest, but they're perfectly capable of trapping something other than their usual insects if need be. Fortunately the title wasn't "flesh-eating" as I had initially thought this article said.