Hello, my friends, and welcome to episode 167 of just the zoo of us. This week I'm talking to

invertebrate photographer, zookeeper, and science communicator about the best huggers of the

arachnid world, Huntsman spiders. We are going to discuss why your yard glitters at night, fake

webs for real spiders, cartwheels backflips,

spider unions, spider spaghetti, and why the most dangerous things about these little guys

is how much we fear them. Just the Zoo of Us presents Huntsman spiders with Caitlin Henderson. Hello, everybody. This is Ellen Weatherford with your favorite animal review podcast, just

a zoo of us. And this week, I'm so hyped to bring a guess that I've been following on

social media for like a couple years at this point. And I'm so just thrilled to get to talk to you.

This is Caitlin Henderson. Say hi, Caitlin. Hey, Caitlin, a lot of people may know you from your photography work that you always have probably

the funniest captions I've ever seen in my life that you post on social media under the name

She's Got Legs.

Yeah, so I run sort of a comedy science communication project across social media.

Thank you for saying it is actually funny.

Not just to you, to me.

Yeah, apparently to at least two people.

I crack myself up on the regular, but no, it's good to hear it's coming across.

Yeah, so I do that and I've also worked with invertebrate zookeeping and other small animals in the past. And I make a lot of videos as

well. And also my spider identification apps by Identify, which is an Australian app for kind of working out

which beast are you looking at.

That's awesome.

Is it Australian and spider specific?

Yes.

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