Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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Meet Jake Gray, an Australian man who let a huntsman spider move in with him. Huntsmen spiders inhabit warm, tropical regions worldwide and around 150 of the roughly 1550 species of them can be found in Australia.

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