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<blockquote data-quote="WolfSpider" data-source="post: 202083" data-attributes="member: 24627"><p>I dunno about intelligence, but my P. regalis does a neat trick once per week. When she was a juvie and I was a noob, I was afraid of her. I opened her cage and threw a cricket in, trying to stay away from her. Quickly I noticed that she would catch the incoming cricket out of the air in her fangs. I thought it was so cool that long after I lost fear of her, I still played catch with her in this way. </p><p>Anyway I wonder how she does it. Her vision is not supposed to be good. I can't imagine that a fluttering cricket that has not touched any aspect of her cage or her webs can invoke a typical vibratory response that she would recognize as incoming prey. Yet, unless she is in pre molt, she does it regularly. However she does it, I am amazed by her accuracy and the speed of her twitch response. No other T I have had in 7 years has done this before.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WolfSpider, post: 202083, member: 24627"] I dunno about intelligence, but my P. regalis does a neat trick once per week. When she was a juvie and I was a noob, I was afraid of her. I opened her cage and threw a cricket in, trying to stay away from her. Quickly I noticed that she would catch the incoming cricket out of the air in her fangs. I thought it was so cool that long after I lost fear of her, I still played catch with her in this way. Anyway I wonder how she does it. Her vision is not supposed to be good. I can't imagine that a fluttering cricket that has not touched any aspect of her cage or her webs can invoke a typical vibratory response that she would recognize as incoming prey. Yet, unless she is in pre molt, she does it regularly. However she does it, I am amazed by her accuracy and the speed of her twitch response. No other T I have had in 7 years has done this before. [/QUOTE]
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