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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Josh's Frogs" data-source="post: 237409" data-attributes="member: 49228">The Seven Dwarfs Part 1: When people think of tarantulas, they mostly think of giant spiders. While some of the largest spiders in the world are tarantulas, some tarantulas never get bigger than three inches. The term “Dwarves” only applies to Tolkien's fictional race and other fantasy creatures inspired by them.  Dwarfism is a term denoting something, especially an animal or plant, that is much smaller than the usual size for its type or species.  This week we will feature Seven awesome Dwarf species of Tarantula. This is day one! Today we feature Harpactira pulchripes, commonly known as the Golden Blue Leg Baboon Tarantulas. This tarantula is native to the arid scrubland of the eastern cape of South Africa. The habitat that this spider comes from is remarkably drab, mostly varying shades of brown. Remarkably, this spider with such flamboyant colors blends right in. When you see pictures of this species online, they look like they have been photoshopped. Then you see them in person and their blue is so intense that it still looks photoshopped.  The intensity of their blue is explained because it comes from color that has been refracted by special scales on their leg. The refracted color comes out as an iridescent electric  blue. The scientific species epithet of this species, “pulchripes” translates into English as, “Pretty Feet”!  [ATTACH=full]75736[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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