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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Josh's Frogs" data-source="post: 238017" data-attributes="member: 49228">Togo Starburst Baboon Tarantula Not all spiders have to be brightly colored to be gorgeous! The Togo Starburst Baboon Tarantula is scientifically known as Heteroscodra maculata. As babies, they are a fawny, speckled brown. As they mature, those browns are traded out for high contrast black, white, and gray. I, personally, love the bold black triangles ordering their eye mounds. Appropriately enough, that gives them an angry look.  I say appropriate because they are famous for a very short, often violently defensive, temper. This is not a spider to take lightly. They have what is called, “medically significant venom” While there has never been a human death from a tarantula, the symptoms of a medically significant tarantula bite include; pain, swelling, possible nausea, possible disorientation, and possible religion.  Even then, these symptoms usually clear up in just a few days. The lesson of caution and respect hopefully lasts longer.[ATTACH=full]75946[/ATTACH]</blockquote>