Baboon appreciation week

MrsHaas

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I kno this overlaps with pokie appreciation week but I just got too excited!!

Please post your baboon stories and pics!! Can't wait to see this thread blossom like the pokie one did! I'll get things going by posting a few pictures (I'll add more when I get home and have a chance to take some photos)...

Here's a few of my beauties!

M. balfouri (bred by the lovely @Blue Jaye):

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E. Olivacea

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I. mira

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E. pachypus (RIP) - in the container I bought her in, not her enclosure FYI

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Ok, now YOUR turn peeps!
 
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Oh and by the way, Avic appreciation week is next! Then dwarf appreciation... I could go on forever!
 
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MrsHaas said:
Oh and by the way, Avic appreciation week is next! Then dwarf appreciation... I could go on forever!
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lol why do I have a feeling they will all start overlapping together until its just "Tarantula Appreciation Week"
 
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MrsHaas said:
I kno this overlaps with pokie appreciation week but I just got too excited!!

Please post your baboon stories and pics!! Can't wait to see this thread blossom like the pokie one did! I'll get things going by posting a few pictures (I'll add more when I get home and have a chance to take some photos)...

Here's a few of my beauties!

M. balfouri (bred by the lovely @Blue Jaye):

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E. Olivacea

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I. mira

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E. pachypus (RIP) - in the container I bought her in, not her enclosure FYI

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Ok, now YOUR turn peeps!
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Im wondering how said person got such a clear pic of I. mira.... rehousing probably right?! If i was more savvy with technology the pics qould be a-flowin righr now!!!
 
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image.jpeg Did someone say I.mira lol she was out of her hide for about a week before she started reconstruction. Pics kinda dark sorry.
 
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Ah, baboon spiders. Back when I started collecting tarantulas in the early 1970's, all that was available was a handful of NW terrestrials. Having friends with reptile collections I came across an old pricelist of a dealer out west that had a species of baboon spider on it. I immediately sent them a money order, but by then the few baboons he had were already sold. I wanted them so bad, and kept looking for years to no avail. It wasn't until 1994 that I saw baboon spiders show up on a reptile dealer's pricelist again, and this time it was several species (H gigas, P muticus, E pachypus, H maculata, and P murinus-brown/green form). I soon had some. What personalities, everything I had hoped for. The hobby was just starting to develop nationwide and almost everything was w/c. I got Andrew Smith's book 'Baboon Spiders', the first attempt to make sense of African tarantula taxonomy, and learned there were quite a few species on that continent. Within several years I was able acquire a total of 15 African species, something almost no one in the US had any desire to do (the hobby still being dominated by NW's). Now that CBB's have been flowing into the US years for years from Europe, the number of OW's available has increased dramatically. Although Africa still isn't represented as well as it should be, due to the seemingly constant civil wars that make collecting hazardous. I hope we continue to see more species introduced, no doubt there's many that haven't been discovered yet. I'll always have a soft spot for baboon spiders.
 
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Blue Jaye said:
M.balfouri communal. Family dinner ! Dubia buffet ! View attachment 213648 View attachment 213649
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Nice, it is fun watching them eat.
annabelle said:
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My darling MM OBT
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Wow, say what you want else you want about an OTB but man are they gorgeous.
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darlingi
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I got a threat pose from one of my tiny H.pulchripes slings. I tried to get a photo but the pre-flash on the phone camera scared it and it ran for it's hide.
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@Blue Jaye blues babies!!
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Are those M.balfouri?
 
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M.balfouri communal when I got them.

They have grown a bit bigger though not showing their colors yet.
 
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