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<blockquote data-quote="Greg" data-source="post: 218123" data-attributes="member: 27757"><p>True, never recommended. Still, take the species into consideration. My Brachypelma smithii is mellow as can be, and is fine sitting on a hand or walking slowly up an arm. They are often the ones you see being introduced to people that are afraid of spiders. You also see them in the movies crawling up people arm while they are terrified. Would the director have an extremely dangerous spider placed on their actor's arm? I think not. On the other hand, I don't even put may hand in my Acanthoscuria geniculata's enclosure without a rubber glove and long sleeves. With that said, there are also individual "personalities" even within species, and one must not generalize temperament 100 percent across a species. To complicate further, a given species may change temperaments during different developmental periods, such as from juvenile to adult. The rule of thumb is to always proceed slowly with caution and respect, and your (and you T's) odds for safety are much heightened.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greg, post: 218123, member: 27757"] True, never recommended. Still, take the species into consideration. My Brachypelma smithii is mellow as can be, and is fine sitting on a hand or walking slowly up an arm. They are often the ones you see being introduced to people that are afraid of spiders. You also see them in the movies crawling up people arm while they are terrified. Would the director have an extremely dangerous spider placed on their actor's arm? I think not. On the other hand, I don't even put may hand in my Acanthoscuria geniculata's enclosure without a rubber glove and long sleeves. With that said, there are also individual "personalities" even within species, and one must not generalize temperament 100 percent across a species. To complicate further, a given species may change temperaments during different developmental periods, such as from juvenile to adult. The rule of thumb is to always proceed slowly with caution and respect, and your (and you T's) odds for safety are much heightened. [/QUOTE]
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