RE: [OT] Bug history was: Starship Troopers

G'day,

> I was told earlier this week that the Sydney Funnelweb Spider 
> is only lethal to mammals.  It paralyses other species instead.

Actually I thought it was deadliest for primates, whereas other mammals
(e.g. cats/dogs) were relatively resistant. That's what's always freaked
me
out... its in Australia and primates (i.e. humans in this case) weren't
to
relatively recently... colossual fluke or nasty cosmic joke? ;)