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No, this will not devolve into a petty argument on who is right and who is wrong. I was just curious if you found comparative volume outputs between tarantula species somewhere since I read in some book or journal that the venom glands of a Theraphosa species (can't remember which one) were tiny relative to the size of the adults, basically meaning they have normal sized venom glands for tarantulas in general. I remember that little factoid because it blew my mind since their chelicerae- where the venom glands are located- are so large. If I find the source of that info I will update this post with it.Uggh, this is going to quickly devolve isn't it? I'm going to say inference based upon adult size (and confirm I was talking about adults and not similarily sized juveniles because I wasn't clear), then you're going to ask me to quote a paper, then I'm going to say I don't know of one, and then I'm going to ask you to quote a paper saying that they don't and then you're not going to be able to provide one because Theraphosids in general are extremely understudied and then we're going to agree to disagree as there isn't anything proving either of us correct, then I'm going to modify my statement to read "it can be reasonably inferred that...." in light of this, then we'll be done......
Yeah, I'm just going to skip to the end here.....
