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Arachnoknight
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Here's a little video of my G. grandidieri taking down a cricket. I tried to focus on the twitching movement of the metasoma. Out of all my scorpions, this guy is the only one who seems to use it to hunt like this. Sometimes he/she will dart all over the enclosure once a cricket is dropped, twitching it side to side methodically as if it's using it to hone in on it's prey.

Was wondering if anyone has observed this in other species.

 
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2nscorpx

Arachnoprince
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That was interesting. I don't know what it could be, maybe it is in preparation to sting. It almost seemed as though it was reflexive, as if the scorpion was anticipating the prey and maybe was preparing the venom glands. I have seen juvenile R. junceus do this before, but it was after a sting, not really while it was hunting. Again, very interesting. It was nice to see a little bit of the behavior of this species.:)
 
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