The Most Feared Spider in New Zealand Now Lives With Me | Enclosure Build

#spider #arachnid #tarantula There's a spider in New Zealand that Peter Jackson couldn't look at. He was so afraid of it, he put it in Lord of the Rings. Her name is Shelob. I have one. In this video, I build a bank-side terrarium for a fully mature female Porrhothele antipodiana, one of New Zealand's most ancient mygalomorphs. We compare her to a baby sling to show just how dramatically these animals grow, and we get to watch her feed, and even spiders dancing. This isn't just a terrarium build. It's the story of a spider that terrified one of the world's most famous directors, and what it means to actually keep one. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 — The Shelob Connection 0:35 — Intro 0:47 — The Black Tunnel Web Spider 1:44 — Connection to LOTR 2:23— Anatomy 3:14 — What does a baby look like? 4:48 — The Build 7:41 — Clean up Crew 8:10 — Anchor Points 9:06 — The Side of a bank 9:58 — Introducing her to the enclosure 11:10 — Have you seen a spider dance? 13:04 — Building her web 13:00 — Feeding 15:17 — Shelob's Lair 15:59 — How it started 17:22 — Outro ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Based in New Zealand, home to some of the most unique and least-understood creatures on the planet. A lifelong obsession. If you want to see things most of the world doesn't know exist, maybe subscribe. Business: [email protected] Socials: IG:   / maxthegrot   FB: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?... New Zealand gecko keeper | Based in New Zealand Subscribe if you want to follow this journey for these amazing animals in captivity — it's only just started. Subscribe -    / @maxthegrot   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #tunnelwebspider #trapdoorspider #Porrhotheleantipodiana #mygalomorph #NewZealandspider #shelob #lotr #spiderterrarium #spiderbuild #spider #nzwildlife #spiderdocumentary #nature #wildlife #exoticpets #enclosurebuild #storytelling #cinematic #natgeo