I just performed a most surreal and highly unscientific experiment, based upon that YouTube video of someone crinkling an envelope with a plastic window near some poecilotheria enclosures, and they go bananas.
Postman just left me some junk mail, so I tried it out around every area where I have my specimens (about 30 of different species and genii). And I was shocked to see my P. miranda go totally ape-doodoo, but absolutely none of the others budged, including my very testy (apparently pre-molt) L. violaceopes. Repeated attempts at this only got the P. miranda to respond.
Went into the other room where there's a few cages and tried again, and this time, only my male G. pulchra adult flipped out. And I mean FLIPPED OUT, literally. Practically fell over. Not a budge from the nearby boehmei, vagans, albopilosum or irminia.
???!?
Someone pointed out that they thought the spiders in the YouTube video which reacted were females, while the males stayed still. Well, both of my apparently-tortured subjects are male (or at least, the P. miranda probably is).
Wha???
PC
Postman just left me some junk mail, so I tried it out around every area where I have my specimens (about 30 of different species and genii). And I was shocked to see my P. miranda go totally ape-doodoo, but absolutely none of the others budged, including my very testy (apparently pre-molt) L. violaceopes. Repeated attempts at this only got the P. miranda to respond.
Went into the other room where there's a few cages and tried again, and this time, only my male G. pulchra adult flipped out. And I mean FLIPPED OUT, literally. Practically fell over. Not a budge from the nearby boehmei, vagans, albopilosum or irminia.
???!?
Someone pointed out that they thought the spiders in the YouTube video which reacted were females, while the males stayed still. Well, both of my apparently-tortured subjects are male (or at least, the P. miranda probably is).
Wha???
PC
