 Tarantulas are also preyed upon by a wide variety of vertebrates.Many of these, including lizards, frogs, birds, and mammals, are generalist predators of all kinds of large arthropods.Mammals that have been known to prey on tarantulas, such as the coati, kinkajou, and opossum in the New World, and mongooses and the honey badger in the Old World, are often immune to the venom of their arthropod prey.