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How to get your tarantula used to being handled
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<blockquote data-quote="DVirginiana" data-source="post: 35077" data-attributes="member: 3320"><p>Just thought I'd put this up on T's and learning. They can definitely 'learn' by the most basic definition of recognizing a stimulus and exhibiting a learned response (even planaria can do this). My T and wolf spider have already gone from terrified of the feeding tongs to the point that I can't let them see the tongs, or they will grab them and try to eat them in just a couple of weeks.</p><p>I imagine they can be conditioned into not freaking out about handling most of the time, kind of like frogs can. But all it takes is a sneeze, or the lighting to be different, ect. and everything they 'learned' goes out the window. I tend to flinch if I don't see a bite coming, so I only handle my rosehair minimally just because I don't want to have the first time I touch her be during some sort of emergency with me being jittery because I've never handled a T before.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DVirginiana, post: 35077, member: 3320"] Just thought I'd put this up on T's and learning. They can definitely 'learn' by the most basic definition of recognizing a stimulus and exhibiting a learned response (even planaria can do this). My T and wolf spider have already gone from terrified of the feeding tongs to the point that I can't let them see the tongs, or they will grab them and try to eat them in just a couple of weeks. I imagine they can be conditioned into not freaking out about handling most of the time, kind of like frogs can. But all it takes is a sneeze, or the lighting to be different, ect. and everything they 'learned' goes out the window. I tend to flinch if I don't see a bite coming, so I only handle my rosehair minimally just because I don't want to have the first time I touch her be during some sort of emergency with me being jittery because I've never handled a T before. [/QUOTE]
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