Do you think tarantulas fart?

[Nightstalker47]

I don't know, but earlier this week, my husband farted really loud near the tarantulas, and Squirt (my Psalmopoeus cambridgei) came running toward it.

 

[HugsTaco]

Maybe this is the key to spider hunting in the wild. Farting. Who knew...
My dad used to fart and blame it on the spiders....

 

[chanda]

Maybe this is the key to spider hunting in the wild. Farting. Who knew...
My dad used to fart and blame it on the spiders....

I think maybe our dads must have known each other! (Or at least they were both well versed in the lore of the infamous "barking spider.")

 

[HugsTaco]

I think maybe our dads must have known each other! (Or at least they were both well versed in the lore of the infamous "barking spider.")

Yes, agreed!

 

[Tenebrarius]

Yes, agreed!

seems like you father knew truths about spiders no other man knew

 

[SonsofArachne]

I think I'll be the first to TRULY study this topic. The world needs to know!

Well, if you're going to do this you will need data on both sound & smell. The easiest way to achieve this would be to first place your ear next to the tarantula's butt, then your nose. And you have to do this with as many species as possible so you can compare sound and odor variables between species. I would suggest starting with Stromatopelma calceatum and Cyriopagopus hainanus, it should be all down hill from there.

 

[Potatatas]

If it is confirmed that tarantulas do fart then that would open the door to even more questions such as:
Do they smell their own farts?
Do they "Dutch oven" each other when paired up?
And of course, do they think farts are funny?

I take great joy from the thought that every time a tarantula farts it has a little giggle to itself.

 

[InvertAddiction]

Haha, I think this might just be the best thread to start my morning with.

 

[Munchelicerae]

I was wondering if scorpions fart. It would be an interesting thing. It would come fron right behind the vesicle and I found it humorous to imagine fartatious gasses traversing up through the metasoma.

Googling these questions had led me here.

 

[Mychajlo]

New question! Can tarantulas cry, for instance when they can’t find a cricket wandering around their enclosure, it would make me feel sad if I walked in on any of my girls crying, and how weird would that look lol, *worlds smallest violin plays for the worlds smallest tear*

 

[Potatatas]

New question! Can tarantulas cry

It's well documented that female tarantulas actually can cry. But only when you tell her her butt is looking bigger.

 

[Tenebrarius]

It's well documented that female tarantulas actually can cry. But only when you tell her her butt is looking bigger.

I told her it was a good thing she didn't believe me

lmao the only on crying is me when I found out how slow B. smithi grows

 

[Potatatas]

I told her it was a good thing she didn't believe me

lmao the only on crying is me when I found out how slow B. smithi grows

How dare you body shame her! Now she's gunna go on a diet and take her skin completely off because she feels so uncomfortable in it!

 

[Spidermolt]

What the heck did just click on.

 

[Arachnophobphile]

How I stumbled on this I do not know....

 

[SpookySpooder]

And you bumped it for the likes of me, thanks

I was gonna say, "no way Avics can poop cannon with that velocity and there's no fart"

Where there's fire there's smoke

 

[catboyeuthanasia]

1: find spider physiology textbook on not libgen
2: look at chapter on digestive system
3: check what they have written about gut microbiome. If any of the bacteria found there produce methane, the answer is probably yes