Ben Newell builds terrariums and aquariums and gets up close and personal with the tiny creatures that inhabit them. as you might guess, the trick is in gentle moves and food. In the video above, he makes friends with a tiny jumping spider named Earl that he's had for several months now. There are a couple of scary moments in the video that add just the right amount of drama, but Earl is fine. In later videos, we find that Earl, who is a female, met a potential boyfriend named Toejam, who was quite a dancer. That didn't work out, and now Earl's new boyfriend is a spider named Tom Selleck. We wish them all the happiness in the world.
You'll find a lot more vignettes from Earl's life at Newell's Instagram page, and longer videos that give more details (in case you want to befriend spiders, frogs, and lizards) at his YouTube channel. -via Boing Boing