Why are some tarantulas called Baboon tarantulas?

[arachbiodude]

Maybe this is answered somewhere? Is it part of taxonomic designation or are they just large hairy stocky tarantulas? Are they only old world. My OBT is baboon.

 

[Tarantulafeets]

Read somewhere that when they stick their legs out of their burrow, it looks like the fingers of a baboon, and it kind of does. Here is my C marshalli doing it:

 

[arachbiodude]

OK so they are all burrowers?

 

[arachbiodude]

This Vietnamese earth tiger does it.

 

[arachbiodude]

My Curly hair is always in burrow?

 

[Arachnoclown]

Their leg tips resemble monkey fingers. More so for Hysterocrates gigas and Pelinobius muticus. Not so much for OBTs. They lumped all Afican spiders as baboons it seams.

 

[Arachnoclown]

 

[octanejunkie]

Their leg tips resemble monkey fingers. More so for Hysterocrates gigas and Pelinobius muticus. Not so much for OBTs. They lumped all Afican spiders as baboons it seams.View attachment 61731

I have a female OBT that acts like a fossorial and hangs "monkey digits" out of her burrow

 

[DustyD]

Does she ever flip you the middle monkey digit?

 

[Tarantulafeets]

Does she ever flip you the middle monkey digit?

-_-

I thought T albos were supposed to be "nice." They aren't even OW XD

 

[Reptisect]

Hi, I live south africa and might be of some assistance: baboon tarantulas or baboon spiders as we call them in south africa, get there name from the sticky pads under there feet that resemble the thick skin on the under side of a baboons fingers.

 

[SikmT7]

@Reptisect just schooled all ya!! My peoples taught me something new!

 

[MBullock]

dang ceratogyrus DOES look like a baboon hand.

I always assumed it was just some BS marketing term made by some random spider vendor lmao

 

[SikmT7]

dang ceratogyrus DOES look like a baboon hand.

I always assumed it was just some BS marketing term made by some random spider vendor lmao

My peoples @Reptisect is local to that area so this one should know best about this subject matter. I still wonder how some genus and species names come about.....

 

[SikmT7]

Hi, I live south africa and might be of some assistance: baboon tarantulas or baboon spiders as we call them in south africa, get there name from the sticky pads under there feet that resemble the thick skin on the under side of a baboons fingers.

Thank you for that info my friend

 

[Reptisect]

Thank you for that info my friend

You are most welcome

 

[octanejunkie]

always assumed it was just some BS marketing term made by some random spider vendor lmao

Often named by, or after, the people that discovered and catalogued them (see Reginald Pocøck) or later reclassified them, along with latin descriptors; like gigas for giant.