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Message: <blockquote data-quote="octanejunkie" data-source="post: 206609" data-attributes="member: 3872">A tarantula's "memory" is limited to its instinctive programming and sensory perception, for example: it senses movement and it reacts based on its programming following basic decision tree #1<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Hungry: assess potential food item and acquire</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Not hungry: rebuff; if threatened, go to decision tree #2 (flight or fight/threaten)</li> </ol>A tarantula may tolerate being held (walking on the soft pink tree) and it may not. Based on what it senses, it will revert to its instinctive programming and decision trees. It will never know you, or recognize you, beyond its instinctive programmed responses.If you want to handle, safely, and be recognized, happily; get a dog.</blockquote>