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https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=605460392824209&set=a.440909405945976.88440.440761565960760&type=1&theater don't try this at home :)

its not CR in category for sure :) I saw this post and it makes huge attention (which is good and bad both). if people see CR category for an animal they tend to be concerned ~ which is good! and the bad side of this is: an imposed threat level means a documentation of a global awareness (which...

Ha haa good one!!!! several questions here. true that the Locals kill of fear, and that's one reason we do workshops and environmental education programs. Beyond that, I have no way of protecting. I have paid and rescued few by my own and released them to the same area away from human...

ill probably spend more than all of you to save one from leaving Sri Lanka... please don't get caught taking it. It will be posted all across media and tagged you as a smuggler. trying my best to get a parliament act to completely restrain/ bann entry clearance visa the country, if a person get...

i've heard from locals that collectors came even two years ago. and had collected specimens for 1/10 of market value....(keep aside paying for locals to collect), its unethical to wipe-out a population, just because people likes collecting right! you are correct, habitat destruction and killing...

u know what..... i have done extensive sampling in for the last 5 months and I only found 7 individuals. that's how badly it has affects the natural population from this so called ethical pet trade. no wonder original P. smithi is expensive.... the range of my field collection is 20 km...

no worries, at lest, someone might read and understand it now :)

true story! Well, I wrote the paper on Poecilotheria amarasekerai. However, the species was described before my full paper is processed. Therefore several other individuals named the species as P. rajaei (before the full paper is published). Distribution, Ecology and Morphology of a newly...