Chicken Spider Tarantula

[ubercamel]

stop poking it you retards

[123Tagi]

@ubercamel Dude, didn't you hear the guide. We are saving its life !

[ubercamel]

@123Tagi OK calling you retards was harsh, sorry. How did poking it with a stick save it's life though?

[lordabomity]

@ubercamel He wasn't poking it. Merely guiding it off the road. =)

[thehat222]

*Pulchra not Pultra

excuse my misspelling.

[BreatheForMe1]

spider is like "bitch u better watch where ur poking me with tht stick"

[mike235697]

i think the named the vid "chicken spider" although it is obvious that it can't kill a chicken, anyway they named it cause of the t running i dunno?

[123Tagi]

@mike235697 It's not obvious if these things hunt and kill in packs?

[mike235697]

@123Tagi they do, wow i did not know, but if they kill in packs why was that 1 alone?

[BradJC70]

@123Tagi They don't. They don't colonize, co habitat or 'mobilize' in groups. Quite the opposite. Unless mating, they see each other as a potential meal.

[DawgcityClev]

@mike235697 wrong. it's named this because they have been recorded/documented by locals of growing 11-13 inches in legspan, and living as many as 15 plus in a single burrow, hunting live prey and many times taking down livestock birds. Get your facts straight before speaking ridiculous things. Also caring for their young much longer than the average spider or tarantula would.

[thehat222]

@DawgcityClev "By locals."

Locals in places like this also claim dog sized spiders drag away their young.

Trust me, I'm the in invertebrate trade I know the south American genus' and none of them have any social behaviors. Its a myth. The only places you'll see communal behaviors among tarantulas is some few African species and among the Poeclotheria sp. in India.

And this spider looks to be a Grammostola Pultra, they get about six inch leg spans and DON'T colonize or have any communal behavior.

[DawgcityClev]

@thehat222 I don't need you trying to school me on spiders or tarantula. I have over 30 of them INCLUDING Grammostola Pulchra. And your info isn't validated evidence. What you claim to be myth, you have no evidence of it. And that would call you a liar for spreading false information simply because you feel the need to. Until you move within the area, film these tarantula and can refute what locals say, then YOUR claims are myth. End of story.

[mike235697]

@THEBIGCAGEY fucking psycho

[cleptomon]

I 1st saw this spider on Nature. It comes on PBS! When I saw this, I freaked out! I dont like spiders and now we got one that's eating chickens? WTH!

[JensTwn]

How do you know its a "Chicken spider" in this clip. Have they been describet yet?

My guess is that it belongs to the Pamphobeteus spp.

Salute

[royenemoj83]

it could be many species of T, not a 'chicken spider'. and @simonsex why the hell would you kill it. honestly i have many T's and some have even gone for me, but i would never hurt them. they are amazing creatures!!!!!

[mike235697]

@royenemoj83 true that man true that

[simonsex]

why did you not kill it????????

[macc305]

@simonsex WHY DONTT YOU KILL YOUR SELF, THATS A ALIVE ANIMAL, YOU MUSNT KILL ALIVE THINGS

[mike235697]

@macc305 i agree

[mike235697]

@simonsex stfu troll

[vbvibeify]

man id giv an arm and a leg to av 1 of those chicken spiders ya shud av caught it you could of got loads for it .......... nice find any way bud

[da0867]

Yeah I agree completely. I think this whole "chicken spider" thing is just a common way to say big black spider among Peruvians. Could very well be Pamphobeteus antinous.

[renton1664]

Whats to say its a chicken spider?

Should read "Big black spider in peru".

[laskolasko]

I know a ton of Tarantula keepers who would pay big bucks for that T.

[Iowia]

If I was such a big spider, I would fuck things up!

[mike235697]

@Iowia lol me too

[Chrrayden3]

AAAHHHHH!!!! \("o )/

Now they're in my AC vents, Why'd I have to watch this!!!!

[thereviewer1234]

wow. thats how all spiders react.

[mike235697]

@thereviewer1234 no thats not how all react lokk up angry tarantula on youtube and you'll see what i mean

[weedfien420]

that thing is massive. and from what ive read the ones that size are actually considered small lol

that sucks!

[MrFreeman420]

"we are saving his life" and your pissing it off too

[lordabomity]

Not pissed off, just a normal reaction.

[DaveAlmighty3000]

You guys have balls of steel.

[Snotlingfondler]

for poking a spider with a stick?

[mcneilscorpionone]

then I must have balls of titanium then... lol

[lordabomity]

HAHAH same here

[jestercom]

lol the spiders like 'don't fucking poke me.'

[ExtremeBogom]

Cool.