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Message: <blockquote data-quote="octanejunkie" data-source="post: 194795" data-attributes="member: 3872">Breeding aside, part of my focus in the various different projects is to understand the different growth rates and patterns of species and genders within each species. I would imagine that there's some some aspect of both nature and nurture involved in growth rate. Not to mention endemic conditions, like a monsoon season or a dry season, influence maturity rates. I would also imagine that over a significant enough period of time, evolution, can definitely theorize why males and females of the same sac mature at different rates, males faster to ensure diversity and bloodlines so that members of the same sack don't reproduce, ensuring genetic diversity and minimizing expression of genetic singularities, undesirable traits and bad genes.That being said, it's also fun to raise a bunch of tarantulas and hope you get some females.</blockquote>