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Holy Crap, This Molting Tarantula Video Is Completely Bonkers

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Seriously, even if spiders give you the heebie-jeebies, you need to watch this. With a little bit of audio editing, a tarantula shedding its exoskeleton becomes cute—even if it’s still a bit creepy.

I don’t know what inspired Vimeo user Bipolar Spider to add wacky audio to their molting Chilean Rose while playing with the video speeds. I do know that I watched this video four times in a row and cheered every time the tarantula stretched its legs next to its freshly shed shell.

[via Vimeo Staff Picks]

Edit: Thanks to AsdffAnon, for pointing out the audio is from Rubber Johnny by Chris Cunningham, with music by Aphex Twin:

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