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In the Philippines, Japan, Singapore and prisons in Florida, people have spiders fight one another for sport; it’s like a form of high stakes Pokémon.
Using spiders that are native to the area, like female orb-weavers in the Philippines or male thiania bhamoensis spiders in Singapore, people will have the spiders fight for sport. The spiders are placed on either end of a stick and then prodded along until they meet and fight, sometimes to the death.
People bet on the outcomes of the fights and Japan even has a yearly spider fighting tournament called Kumo Gassen, which is held in Kajiki, Kagoshima.
