Chicken Spider Tarantula

A Chicken Spider Tarantula found on a road near Lake Sandoval, Peru.

http://flickr.com/photos/22970904@N05/2279596945/

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Spider
• Tarantula
• Lake
• Sandoval
• Jungle
• Peru

[ubercamel]

stop poking it you retards

[123Tagi]

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

[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?

[jestercom]

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

[Iowia]

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

[lordabomity]

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

[ubercamel]

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

[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.

[thehat222]

*Pulchra not Pultra

excuse my misspelling.



[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.

[BreatheForMe1]

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

[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.