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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heretic" data-source="post: 226362" data-attributes="member: 41495">Tarantula Collective just had a long format interview with a Phd candidate on her research into Tarantula (and Bee) behaviors.  Its on his Youtube channel if you'd like to watch.Its an outstanding interview and really opens the possibilities up that by a huge margin Tarantulas are a lot more intelligent then first thought.  They can even learn and understand their environment.  A ton more research is needed, but its clear that Tarantulas can learn and remember.  Just like the Pavlovian response in Dogs, the suggestion was if you can successfully tong feed your T, to start gently tapping the enclosure before opening it up to tong feed. This very well might train the T to understand food is coming and come out for its dinner.They also linked high stress enclosure situations with aggression. If the enclosure is too basic and doesn't offer a lot of covered area, to hide and remain calm, the T will be more defensive and threatening to you when you do open up the enclosure. Its funny I just commented on this same thing a few days ago when I posted about increasing the size requirements of out T's enclosures.</blockquote>