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Syndaesia Syndaesia is a genus of arachnids of the order Solifugae. Common names include windscorpion, sunspider and camel spider. They are mainly nocturnal. They are desert creatures, common in Africa, the Middle East and North America. They resemble a scorpion, but without the sting or claws, this is because they don't need them. Solifugids have, for their size, the largest jaws in the animal kingdom. They can bite people, and camels, but do not carry poison. There are many different species, all carnivorous, the largest can be five inches across and they can run very fast. In fact all they seem to do is run and eat. The only thing they seem to run away from is the sun, in the wild they can seem quite fearless and even aggressive. They eat anything they can catch, including small vertebrates and other solifugids. Their ultra fast lifestyle seems to be a limiting factor, they only live for about a year. They caused some problems for the allied British and American troops currently encamped in the Iraqi desert during the Iraq War of 2003; some soldiers were more worried about solifugids crawling into their boots than they were about Saddam Hussein and his cronies.
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