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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arachnoclown" data-source="post: 188486" data-attributes="member: 27444"><p>Lmao, Your statement was a generalization. Being complacent with a old world spider like a  H. maculata or Poecilotheria and you'll be seeing the Emergency room. You can't generalize all spiders get less defensive with age. Each spider is its own individual.  My Grammostola rosea is over 20 years old and will throw up a threat posture right now. Also spiders dont learn...they can't be taught. They don't have a functioning brain that holds onto memories.  They function totally on preset instincts. Food, shelter, defense, breeding...thats it. They dont learn to tolerate you.[ATTACH=full]53176[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>