Do your Ts have a favourite keeper?

[Katiekooleyes]

I don't think they recognise human faces as such. As far as I know, their brains aren't wired to recognise such detail from a completely different species!

However, I have noticed that mine tends to hide if I have guests round. I don't think this is down to visual recognition. I personally think it's to with the added vibrations when another person is in close range to her enclosure. When it''s just me, she knows that the vibrations I make don't wish her harm. However, add another human on top of that, and she starts to think twice about the situation and hides.

That said, I KNOW she recognises mealworms when they're close to her enclosure. She's even scrabbled towards the lid upon seeing them from a foot away before! That surprised me, as I've always understood that T's have poor eyesight!

 

[The Grym Reaper]

I don't think they recognise human faces as such. As far as I know, their brains aren't wired to recognise such detail from a completely different species!

In addition to being practically blind

 

[Katiekooleyes]

Yes, I mentioned their poor eyesight further down my post. I'm not entirely sure what they see, but it's interesting how they interact with the world round them with very little vision

 

[Paul1126]

I don't think they recognise human faces as such. As far as I know, their brains aren't wired to recognise such detail from a completely different species!

However, I have noticed that mine tends to hide if I have guests round. I don't think this is down to visual recognition. I personally think it's to with the added vibrations when another person is in close range to her enclosure. When it''s just me, she knows that the vibrations I make don't wish her harm. However, add another human on top of that, and she starts to think twice about the situation and hides.

That said, I KNOW she recognises mealworms when they're close to her enclosure. She's even scrabbled towards the lid upon seeing them from a foot away before! That surprised me, as I've always understood that T's have poor eyesight!

Don't wanna sound rude, but I think you are severely overestimating your tarantulas intelligence

 

[Katiekooleyes]

Don't wanna sound rude, but I think you are severely overestimating your tarantulas intelligence

Which part? Feeling more footsteps is something that will turn up on a T's radar, and surely recognising the wriggly thing at the end of a large shiney apparatus isn't out the realm of basic senses?

 

[Paul1126]

She's even scrabbled towards the lid upon seeing them from a foot away before!

I've never seen this happen, if a prey item stays still right in front of them they won't grab them

 

[Tenebrarius]

I've never seen this happen, if a prey item stays still right in front of them they won't grab them

might be a defense response to movement every time I grab my H puchripes enclosure it runs from what it was doing to investigate why it started flying in the air. a great feeding response and defensive behavior can be commonly anthropomorphized as some thing humans do or whatever...I wouldn't know Im still confused about humans and there's ways. and some slings are pretty bad eaters when I show my B hamorii food it runs away RIP...

 

[miamc12321]

My husband and I are mixed I guess. Chewy, Bilbo, and Fen like him better. Leela, Tori, and Bean just don't care? Wanna say me... Then there is our new love. Levi. Who just hides away... She is undecided...

 

[Paul1126]

might be a defense response to movement every time I grab my H puchripes enclosure it runs from what it was doing to investigate why it started flying in the air. a great feeding response and defensive behavior can be commonly anthropomorphized as some thing humans do or whatever...I wouldn't know Im still confused about humans and there's ways. and some slings are pretty bad eaters when I show my B hamorii food it runs away RIP...

None of my Tarantulas or scorpions react until the thing hits the floor

 

[Tenebrarius]

None of my Tarantulas or scorpions react until the thing hits the floor

i have shaky hands that might make things worse. the second I grab my P met enclosure you can feel the legs vibrations from it freaking out.

 

[Paul1126]

i have shaky hands that might make things worse. the second I grab my P met enclosure you can feel the legs vibrations from it freaking out.

I also have shaky hands

 

[draconisj4]

None of my Tarantulas or scorpions react until the thing hits the floor

I have 2 arboreals in inverted AMAC boxes, I usually gently flip the top upside down to drop prey in their webs because neither one will come down to eat. Both of them will immediately get into hunting position if they're hungry when they feel the top move. My smallest scorpion also will come out and reach up towards me when I open it's enclosure.

 

[Tenebrarius]

I have 2 arboreals in inverted AMAC boxes, I usually gently flip the top upside down to drop prey in their webs because neither one will come down to eat. Both of them will immediately get into hunting position if they're hungry when they feel the top move. My smallest scorpion also will come out and reach up towards me when I open it's enclosure.

Ts have terrible eye sight they rely on vibrations as they have a bigger nerve cluster in their leg area then where their brain should exist...their brains are pretty much just a cluster of ocular nerves.

 

[PidderPeets]

I'd put money on my A. avic picking me as her favorite keeper compared to her previous home. With me, she actually gets left alone.

As for all my other little brats, *ahem* I mean lovely arachnid family, I'm basically the only owner they've had (most were bought as teeny tiny slings, and the larger ones were from pet stores), so they're indifferent to me at best

 

[viper69]

I disagree. I'm not saying they know a specific human as such, but I'm sure they know the step of a human that is around all the time and therefore safe and can differentiate it from steps they don't know. After all, vibration is their main sense. I also think that they know the smell of their human caretaker and associate it with 'safe' and differentiate it from other smells.

To learn what is common and safe is essential for any animal. If they freak out and hide from things that are constantly around they'd never get any rest or could come out to hunt. These are not some special 'intelligent' abilites but basic survival traits that any animal must have.

You give them too much credit in my opinion, esp on the "step" and smell.