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<blockquote data-quote="Poec54" data-source="post: 38573" data-attributes="member: 3524"><p>To clarify a few points:</p><p>- Handling tarantulas doesn't help understand them, it's an artificial situation that doesn't occur in the wild: what holds them there also tends to eat them. Handling causes stress whether you choose to acknowledge it or not. Just because they don't bite doesn't mean they're happy that Godzilla picked them up. Observing them act naturally in their cages is how to understand them.</p><p></p><p>- In 'scary situations' you <em>do not</em> want to be using your fingers, as that's what gets bit. Experienced owners use a catch cup. Even docile species will bite in scary situations. In fact, docile species are responsible for more bites than defensive ones, because people handle docile ones.</p><p></p><p>- Tarantulas are invertebrates driven by instinct. It doesn't matter where they were hatched or are living, they're going to do what thousands of years of evolution has taught them to do. That means their cage is their territory, and at times they will defend it from intruders, no what how benevolent your intentions. I've owned thousands of tarantulas over the last 40 years, both wild caught and CBB. I've seen no difference in behavior between the two groups.</p><p></p><p>- It took thousands of years to domesticate dogs, and they're intelligent, social animals. Tarantulas are solitary, cannibalistic, and far less intelligent. It will take significantly longer to domesticate and alter the behavior of captive tarantulas. The wolf/dog analogy is totally inapplicable to spiders.</p><p></p><p>- Using your reasoning, CBB OBT's should be as tame as a Brachypelma. Likewise, CBB venomous snakes are not 'wild animals' either, and should be easy to handle. You would have no problem picking up a CBB black mamba then?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Poec54, post: 38573, member: 3524"] To clarify a few points: - Handling tarantulas doesn't help understand them, it's an artificial situation that doesn't occur in the wild: what holds them there also tends to eat them. Handling causes stress whether you choose to acknowledge it or not. Just because they don't bite doesn't mean they're happy that Godzilla picked them up. Observing them act naturally in their cages is how to understand them. - In 'scary situations' you [I]do not[/I] want to be using your fingers, as that's what gets bit. Experienced owners use a catch cup. Even docile species will bite in scary situations. In fact, docile species are responsible for more bites than defensive ones, because people handle docile ones. - Tarantulas are invertebrates driven by instinct. It doesn't matter where they were hatched or are living, they're going to do what thousands of years of evolution has taught them to do. That means their cage is their territory, and at times they will defend it from intruders, no what how benevolent your intentions. I've owned thousands of tarantulas over the last 40 years, both wild caught and CBB. I've seen no difference in behavior between the two groups. - It took thousands of years to domesticate dogs, and they're intelligent, social animals. Tarantulas are solitary, cannibalistic, and far less intelligent. It will take significantly longer to domesticate and alter the behavior of captive tarantulas. The wolf/dog analogy is totally inapplicable to spiders. - Using your reasoning, CBB OBT's should be as tame as a Brachypelma. Likewise, CBB venomous snakes are not 'wild animals' either, and should be easy to handle. You would have no problem picking up a CBB black mamba then? [/QUOTE]
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