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Professor King, who recently won the Prime Minister's Prize for Innovation for developing the world's first insecticides from spider venom, discovered Hi1a in the venom of the K'gari funnel web spider.

One of the most promising venom-derived drugs to date comes from the deadly Fraser Island funnel web spider of Australia, which halts cell death after a heart attack.

The starry voice cast includes Eric Bana as the zookeeper, Isla Fisher as a taipan, Tim Minchin as a koala, Guy Pearce as a funnel web spider and Keith Urban as a cane toad.

He offers a near nonstop look at his masterpiece offering minutiae down to the recording of waves crashing on rocks using drones for the opening sequence to neglecting to tell actors that a nighttime location area was filled with funnel web spider nests.

Males of the nursery web spider offer bridal gifts to their future mates.