Sorry I'm not worth your time...your simply not worth response time. I've already explained myself here.
Good luck.
...The other fact is they have been around for some 450,000,000 million years and for the most part unchanged....
Oh yeah, the earth isn't even this old.....
Dear Xian,
I'm not sure where you went to school, but i beg to differ with you. The earth is somewhere around 4.5 billion years old.....
Thank you very much.
Buckwheat,
I know where I went to school at, and that is where they taught us that 450,000,000 million, is not 4.5 billion, 4,500 million is 4.5 billion....
That's all fine and dandy, but the argument isn't always about whether it's stressful for the spider or not. Some argue that they would like limit their interaction with the spider as much as possible (trying to keep them as close to being in nature as can be, given the circumstances).I have no choice but to put in my two cents on this subject again. Handling a T is beneficial for both the owner and the T. Some use the excuse of stress, well its funny I had a successful sac within three days of handling the mother. The T's do become accustomed to being handled and having the owner more hands on actually prevents bites in my opinion. I've handled all of my T's and had no bites in 15 years so I feel my experience backs up my opinion. I've handled T's such as H. lividum, P. regalis, P. metallica, Xenesthis sp. white, P. ultramarinus, P. nigricolor, H. maculata, M. balfouri just to name a few so its not like I'm messing with a Grammostola here. Anyone who says that you shouldn't handle your T's and has never handled one more than a few times really has no ground to make such comments on this subject. They are basing there opinions on science rather than personal experience. Sometimes science has its flaws and at times it overlooks things. A great example would be the discovery of an octopus using tools. Why is this a big deal, well its an invert folks thats why. Look it up online for those who didn't see that on the nightly news. Last I checked that takes a degree of intelligence to aquire such a skill. Prior to the video scientists said that an octopus had no mental ability to do such actions. There is more to these creatures than meets the eye like the octopus and the longer I keep T's the more I learn about them day after day.
Really? is that where hundreds of years of developing the scientific method has brought us? to reject science and rely on personal experience? We might as well throw out quantum mechanics, general relativity and gravity, then! My personal experiences don't really match that science.Anyone who says that you shouldn't handle your T's and has never handled one more than a few times really has no ground to make such comments on this subject. They are basing there opinions on science rather than personal experience.
Xian is right...your simply not worth response time. I've already explained myself here.
Good luck.
The three physics concepts I listed are three of the most disputed and rehashed hypotheses out there. They are by no means "proven" science.OK, first saying that we should repudiate "proven" science such as gravity, quantum mechanics, and general relativity is a bit much don't you think?? To clear this up I said that science doesn't always see everything, sometimes there are areas that we "genuinely" have a limited knowledge. Second, comparing handling a tarantula to driving drunk a bit much too:?:? How many T's have you handled to make such a statement?? I've been handling every day for the past 15 years, you?? I doubt your data is sufficient to make such a consequential claim. Man I would have a heck of a streak if 15 years is all luck huh???You would think that with 15 years of handling aggressive T's I would have gotten tagged by now?Tell my P. metallica that.. Or maybe my H. lividum Also I am not attacking anyone for not handling their T's. If you are uncomfortable handling them you really shouldn't handle them. If you want to replicate nature then thats cool too. My question to you is how are you any different if you are saying don't handle your T when you don't or never have handled them? Thats like telling someone to invest in certain areas of the stock market when you haven't had any experience investing yourself. No offense your credibility is in question without personal experience.
Sorry, i really didnt read your last post.You basically explained the same there.Thank you Fran! The microwave is probably a more apt comparison than drunk driving. lol
The Ant Whisperer!I'm so good, I can literally shove my hand into a fire ant nest, and they can't touch me.
There's not actually a consensus on how exactly gravity works. That's part of why they're trying to find the Higgs Boson in all those accelerators that people think are going to create black holes and destroy the Earth... The observation that gravity exists is not disputed, but the theory behind WHY is. Simply put, the theory of gravity is disputed.Third, gravity isn't real huh??
No, I don't want pictures. I want to see it for myself, as I clearly stated in my earlier post.Oh and about proof....If you would like pics of me and my H. lividum, or P. metallica I'll be more than happy to show them off. I obviously can't give you proof that I've been in the hobby for 15 years or the fact that I've held them everyday. You would have to take my word for it but a tame H. lividum come on man. When is the last time you have seen one of those? .:wall::wall::wall: