gotta love that intro

[Tortoise Tom]

Link? Lol

Instigator.

 

[SpellKaster4]

I found this, not nice...

I think that's a camel spider isn't it?

 

[MassExodus]

I found this, not nice...

That was kind of awesome actually hahahaaa

 

[Whitelightning777]

Again, one not my spider!!

Two, I don't endorse this!! The experiment need not ever be repeated.

 

[MassExodus]

Eat the little tweety bird, yeesssssss, eat it! Muhahahahaaaaa!!! J/k. Interesting how fast the venom worked. I wonder how many birds Poecis and other arboreals kill. I'd love to see a wild one take a bird..

 

[SpellKaster4]

Eat the little tweety bird, yeesssssss, eat it! Muhahahahaaaaa!!! J/k. Interesting how fast the venom worked. I wonder how many birds Poecis and other arboreals kill. I'd love to see a wild one take a bird..

I'd like to know the ratio of kills vs scavenged. Unless there are ground dwelling birds in the area I would imagine that the opportunities for nomming birds would be few and fair between. Have you seen the videos of tarantulas taking down snakes? Those ones are extra crazy.

 

[SpellKaster4]

Here's a link to a video of a tarantula taking a snake. I've seen the full video of this before. The guy in this presents himself as a nature expert but he apparently doesn't know much about Ts. Half the stuff he says in this short clip is generalized and incorrect but the footage is cool at least.

 

[MassExodus]

I'd like to know the ratio of kills vs scavenged. Unless there are ground dwelling birds in the area I would imagine that the opportunities for nomming birds would be few and fair between. Have you seen the videos of tarantulas taking down snakes? Those ones are extra crazy.

Yep. In fact, in one popular one, they showed an Lp, or some sp of Lasiodora, kill a snake, and called it a "Goliath Bird Eater" lol. Those shows are great but they pretty much murder facts Personally Im fond of the frog/Aphonopelma so called symbiotic relationship..

 

[SpellKaster4]

Yep. In fact, in one popular one, they showed an Lp, or some sp of Lasiodora, kill a snake, and called it a "Goliath Bird Eater" lol. Those shows are great but they pretty much murder facts Personally Im fond of the frog/Aphonopelma so called symbiotic relationship..

I liked that too. Goliath is the PC way of saying "big ass" spider nowadays I think. I've seen that frog thing! How they supposedly keep the frogs as "pets" to guard they're egg sacs. I'm pretty sure any T would just nom the frog as well as anything else that came around lol.

 

[MassExodus]

I liked that too. Goliath is the PC way of saying "big ass" spider nowadays I think. I've seen that frog thing! How they supposedly keep the frogs as "pets" to guard they're egg sacs. I'm pretty sure any T would just nom the frog as well as anything else that came around lol.

Lmao, you linked the very video. The spider on the fer de lance looks like a Lasiodora to me. The first spider they show is a Theraphosa though. You'd be surprised how many people in the hobby believe the Aphonopelma thing..

 

[SpellKaster4]

Lmao, you linked the very video. The spider on the fer de lance looks like a Lasiodora to me. The first spider they show is a Theraphosa though. You'd be surprised how many people in the hobby believe the Aphonopelma thing..

I can see how a person like myself could confuse the two but if you are presenting yourself as an expert then at least have the real experts who do your research off camera write your script correctly lol. I guess I can see wanting to believe the frog thing, it's a neat idea. Maybe it's cause all my experience is with an LP who eats like it's going out of style but I never could believe a tarantula wouldn't instantly murder a frog just cause it could lol.

 

[MassExodus]

I can see how a person like myself could confuse the two but if you are presenting yourself as an expert then at least have the real experts who do your research off camera write your script correctly lol. I guess I can see wanting to believe the frog thing, it's a neat idea. Maybe it's cause all my experience is with an LP who eats like it's going out of style but I never could believe a tarantula wouldn't instantly murder a frog just cause it could lol.

Personally I think the frogs are unpalatable for them. They just slap at them, never strike. Alot of frogs have poison they secrete..What I think happened was they ran a plumbers camera down a tarantula burrow after a rain. Frog pops up in the burrow, voila, myth in the making. Just a theory though, cant prove it.

 

[SpellKaster4]

Personally I think the frogs are unpalatable for them. They just slap at them, never strike. Alot of frogs have poison they secrete..What I think happened was they ran a plumbers camera down a tarantula burrow after a rain. Frog pops up in the burrow, voila, myth in the making. Just a theory though, cant prove it.

Sounds plausible to me. Of course that's lazy science lol. "What's this, a frog?! Hmm, frogs are often toxic and like moist conditions so perhaps the tarantula knows not to eat it and the frog is simply waiting out the rain.... Nah! Pet frog!"

 

[MassExodus]

Sounds plausible to me. Of course that's lazy science lol. "What's this, a frog?! Hmm, frogs are often toxic and like moist conditions so perhaps the tarantula knows not to eat it and the frog is simply waiting out the rain.... Nah! Pet frog!"

Rofl!

 

[Whitelightning777]

Here's a link to a video of a tarantula taking a snake. I've seen the full video of this before. The guy in this presents himself as a nature expert but he apparently doesn't know much about Ts. Half the stuff he says in this short clip is generalized and incorrect but the footage is cool at least.

There's no way you just walk up to a Goliath in the open and handle it. That first spider was either chilled or gassed or both.

That made it ok to handle but useless for hunting, thus the second Lasiodora species whatever to fill in the role.

That's the most logical conclusion.

Hell will freeze over before my T stirmi becomes docile. Hissy fit isn't just a metaphor anymore.

 

[SpellKaster4]

There's no way you just walk up to a Goliath in the open and handle it. That first spider was either chilled or gassed or both.

That made it ok to handle but useless for hunting, thus the second Lasiodora species whatever to fill in the role.

That's the most logical conclusion.

Hell will freeze over before my T stirmi becomes docile. Hissy fit isn't just a metaphor anymore.

That's one thing I was thinking about too. I freaking wild T just let you put it on your arm? No, I doubt that. Although, did you notice how pissed it was getting as he was poking it to keep it on that log? I'd have died if it just bit the crap out of his hand lol.

 

[Whitelightning777]

It was starting to wake up. If it was fully revived, a hissy fit and full threat posture would've ensued