Interestingly, there are spiders that will consume small mammals like mice and even snakes.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_birdeater" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_birdeater</a><p>Their primary diet isn't birds as the name might suggest, but they're perfectly capable of trapping something other than their usual insects if need be.<p>Fortunately the title wasn't "flesh-eating" as I had initially thought this article said.