Does This Spider Look Like Borat?

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By Anne Cohen October 9, 2013

This is not a joke.

An Indian software engineer snapped a picture of a spider that he swears looks exactly like Borant, the Kazakhstani character played Sacha Baron Cohen character, the Daily Mail reported.

Anand Joshi, 24, reportedly found the mustachioed, mankini-legged lookalike outside his house in Bangalore.

Check out the picture here. What do you think?

Anne Cohen was the Forward’s deputy digital media editor. When she’s not looking for the secret Jewish history of Voodoo in New Orleans, or making lists about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she writes for The Assimilator. She graduated from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism with an M.S. magazine concentration in 2012.

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