Asia's Forgotten Giant Spiders | Weird Planet

Hidden in the rainforests of Southeast Asia are giant tree-dwelling spiders. These things are lightning fast, vividly colored, and absolutely real - and they're taking spider biology to the absolute extreme. Today we're venturing out into the dark to get hands on with some of Asia's forgotten giant arachnids. My name is Spencer Hoffman. I’m a biologist and filmmaker from North Carolina and my goal is to find the most extreme life forms in the world—from the strangest, to the deadliest— and capture the stories of how their insane lifestyles help them to survive on our Weird Planet.