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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VaporRyder" data-source="post: 201685" data-attributes="member: 37475">*most* tarantulas burrow at some point - some just when they’re younger, others at all ages. Half my pokies burrow - although they do also climb of course - and yet they are considered arboreal.I totally agree that to be fossorial they must be obligate, rather than opportunistic, burrowers. I think of C. minax for example. Avics on the other hand are true arboreals.I wonder whether there is a spectrum of behaviour rather than 3 fixed classifications.Usambara OBTs are very interesting (to me) and possibly the most adaptive terrestrial.The ‘4th kind’ if you like. Check this out.[MEDIA=youtube]85eqb3wODws[/MEDIA]</blockquote>