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<blockquote data-quote="Chubbs" data-source="post: 68419" data-attributes="member: 1084"><p>Throwing crickets isn't going to do anything. The crickets might munch on him actually. MM's often don't eat, their entire purpose is to find females to mate with, plus they're always on the move out in the wild, they are short on time, and do not have time to stop and eat all the time. I hope I'm not coming across as harsh here, I'm just saying that this literally is the entire purpose behind a male spiders existence. The reason he was so active was because he was building sperm webs and searching for a mate. Mature males don't normally sit still for very long. There's not really much you can do for one that's dying of old age, I it's just a part of its life cycle. A tarantula that is dying of old age isn't in a constant state of pain either, so suffering isn't really a term I'd use to describe what they go through when they die. Invertebrates aren't believed to feel pain the way most other animals do either. Granted they sense injuries and know when they're dying, but they don't actually feel pain the way a more complex life form would. ICU's are normally meant as a method of euthanasia.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chubbs, post: 68419, member: 1084"] Throwing crickets isn't going to do anything. The crickets might munch on him actually. MM's often don't eat, their entire purpose is to find females to mate with, plus they're always on the move out in the wild, they are short on time, and do not have time to stop and eat all the time. I hope I'm not coming across as harsh here, I'm just saying that this literally is the entire purpose behind a male spiders existence. The reason he was so active was because he was building sperm webs and searching for a mate. Mature males don't normally sit still for very long. There's not really much you can do for one that's dying of old age, I it's just a part of its life cycle. A tarantula that is dying of old age isn't in a constant state of pain either, so suffering isn't really a term I'd use to describe what they go through when they die. Invertebrates aren't believed to feel pain the way most other animals do either. Granted they sense injuries and know when they're dying, but they don't actually feel pain the way a more complex life form would. ICU's are normally meant as a method of euthanasia. [/QUOTE]
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