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Tarantulas spin silk from feet too:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0927201410.htm
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01-12-2007, 07:56 AM
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Thanks Matt, they made for my morning reading. I have all way been amazed to watch our Tarantulas spin and wondered how they could totally enclose their cage with web in about a days time.
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01-12-2007, 08:17 AM
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Wow. It's definitely not easy to prove a new species. Probably a good thing.
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Pretty cool Matt! I was just reading about the turtle discovery in Reptiles Magazine. They mentioned that normally the turtle would have just ended up as someone's dinner. Luckily a villager who was conservation minded recognized it and bought it from the fisherman.
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01-12-2007, 10:15 AM
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Awesome!! Thanks for sharing!! I love interesting little things like these!!
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01-12-2007, 07:59 PM
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No problem! I've actually spoken to the guy that took the tarantula photo for the Smithsonian magazine article. Here's his website: http://savagedigital.com/, he's got a lot of cool herp and invert photos.
After looking for an online version of the article I came across the other two.
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