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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Josh's Frogs" data-source="post: 237055" data-attributes="member: 49228">Tarantula courtship can be a scary thing for the male. In tarantula courtship, there is a fine line between being a dinner date and just plain being dinner. Once the male is mature, he leaves his nice safe burrow and skitters out into the open night to find a lady. Once he finds her, he knocks on her door to let her know that he is there and would like to not get eaten. He does this by tapping his legs near the opening of her burrow. He is careful to do this close enough for her to feel his taps and know that he is strong enough to tap loudly, but far enough away to make a break for it if she decides that he would make a better breakfast than boyfriend. Here we see a mature male Pumpkin Patch Tarantula (Hapalopus formosus) in exactly that same predicament. He almost got in the door, seen in this picture, when she chased him out. I tell you, there was a hole in space where that little spider was. That little guy teleported into the catch cup. He lived to court another day. By the way, notice that she is easily 4 to 5 times his size.[ATTACH=full]75525[/ATTACH]</blockquote>