Freshly caught

[Wilze]

We hiked today...and so we also hunt some spiders, these are my new tarantulas...I don't know what their species are but still love them.

 

[Enn49]

Lucky you, I'd so love to see them in the wild.

 

[Wilze]

Lucky you, I'd so love to see them in the wild.

Well two months ago I thought they are deadly, because our elders said those spiders could kill a water buffalo, and people here kill them on sight due to wrong notion...that belief broke when I saw my friend handling these spiders; got biten and still lives...so I started to research and watch some YouTube...I always wanted them as a pet but I'm not allowed before, now I'm old enough and can sway my elders.

 

[Casey K.]

We hiked today...and so we also hunt some spiders, these are my new tarantulas...I don't know what their species are but still love them.

I would say they are Orphnaecus species

 

[Enn49]

Well two months ago I thought they are deadly, because our elders said those spiders could kill a water buffalo, and people here kill them on sight due to wrong notion...that belief broke when I saw my friend handling these spiders; got biten and still lives...so I started to research and watch some YouTube...I always wanted them as a pet but I'm not allowed before, now I'm old enough and can sway my elders.

Now you must teach others that they are not deadly.

 

[Wilze]

Now you must teach others that they are not deadly.

Yes we did...but there's a problem...kids ages 9 to 12 in our neighborhood saw us making enclosures and handling these spiders got interested and no longer afraid...some of them started to hunt on their own...sooner or later some of them will get biten and I'm afraid their parents will blame us

 

[Enn49]

Most of us don't handle our tarantulas as if they fall it can kill them so may be you could teach them that too.

 

[Wilze]

Most of us don't handle our tarantulas as if they fall it can kill them so may be you could teach them that too.

Oh they die when they fall...then why are they jumping when we caught them...the small ones really jumps out from our hands...and they runs very fast unlike the other tarantulas I see in YouTube they walk like Ms universe.

 

[Enn49]

Oh they die when they fall...then why are they jumping when we caught them...the small ones really jumps out from our hands...and they runs very fast unlike the other tarantulas I see in YouTube they walk like Ms universe.

They can injure themselves if they fall any distance especially onto a hard surface.
Tarantulas can be very fast but usually in short bursts. some of the terrestrials tend to be calmer.