Here's a classic "birdeater"

[LaRiz]

Good for you, given that it might as well not be [/B]

Vys, you may be right. This was a freebie I recieved about a month abo. When I received her, she was pretty tattered. I set her up correctly and she was so happy, she molted shortly after. I'm not convinced that it is 100% A. avicularia. This one is just doesn't look like the typical A. avic. Her abdomen is stark black, not a speck of another color. She just doesn't fit well with the A. avics I'm used to. I did forward this pic to some peers for review. It was kinda split. Some think it's a typical A. avic, some aren't sure what she is.
Though, I'm still going to call her an Avic. avic until I send somebody a molt.
john

 

[chaset]

Bats

There is also a pic somewhere on rick wests page of a spider eating a bat, I can't remember where it is though.

 

[Henry Kane]

I have the same exact thing with my Avic avic. Very aqua in appearance with a purplish mirror patch. I've certainly questioned what exact sp. she may be. You know how Avic taxonomy can be.

John, where are you going to send the molt for taxonomy? If possible, I wouldn't mind doing the same.


Atrax

 

[Joy]

Re: hey!

Originally posted by Tarantula Lover
my avic just had a cric this morning, i love it, it has beutiful metallic blue colors! nice pic lariz, i also have a question-do avics really eat birds? has anyone fed a bird to their avic?
thanks,

James

Not personally, but I've heard of people who used baby chicks as feeders for tarantulas (mostly larger ones like blondi).

Joy

 

[Haploman]

hey

I once fed my female P.regalis a finch never again I will do that again frigging feathers all over the tank (yet I used a vacuum cleaner with crevice tool to clean out those damn feathers and boy oh boy my regalis went crazy

 

[LaRiz]

John, where are you going to send the molt for taxonomy? If possible, I wouldn't mind doing the same.Atrax [/B]

A couple years back I contacted Rick West to examine a couple of molts. He was very gracious and kind enough to inspect them, and even called my home with the results. Perhaps I'll contact him again.
john

 

[Vys]

Re: hey

Originally posted by Haploman
I once fed my female P.regalis a finch never again I will do that again frigging feathers all over the tank (yet I used a vacuum cleaner with crevice tool to clean out those damn feathers and boy oh boy my regalis went crazy

LOL!

Originally by LaRiz
Vys, you may be right. This was a freebie I recieved about a month abo. When I received her, she was pretty tattered. I set her up correctly and she was so happy, she molted shortly after. I'm not convinced that it is 100% A. avicularia. This one is just doesn't look like the typical A. avic. Her abdomen is stark black, not a speck of another color. She just doesn't fit well with the A. avics I'm used to. I did forward this pic to some peers for review. It was kinda split. Some think it's a typical A. avic, some aren't sure what she is.
Though, I'm still going to call her an Avic. avic until I send somebody a molt.

Oh, I'm sorry if it sounded as if I implied that you were wrong about its species. I just meant to say that in the picture, it looks a bit like a Purpurea, or perhaps even a Metallica, as well.
She's beautiful, anyhow. I so like the 'fuzziness' of avics.

 

[LaRiz]

Hey Vys, no worries...

I was just saying that I agree with you. I'm not really sure myself (and others I've conferred with) on what it is.
"Good for you, given that it might as well not be"... A. avic., or something else.
Um, forget that I guess I'm not reading you.
john

 

[Henry Kane]

Originally posted by LaRiz
A couple years back I contacted Rick West to examine a couple of molts. He was very gracious and kind enough to inspect them, and even called my home with the results. Perhaps I'll contact him again.
john

Cool! Rick did the same for me a few months ago. How cool can he be, huh? I wasn't sure if you had another source or not. Thanks a ton though! I have Rick's contact info.

Take care John.

Atrax

 

[Wade]

Some other fun facts about Avicularia-

The name "Avicularia" was coined and given to this species by none other than Carlos Linneus, the creator of our modern taxonomic system. I think he had a different generic name, however. It was also the first theraphosid to be given a latin name.

Around this time, an etching depicting a tarantula feeding on a hummingbird created a stir in Europe when it appeared because it seemed to upset "God's order" because invertebrates were not supposed to prey on vertebrates. I think it was the same illustration that inspired Linneus's to create the name.

Wade

 

[krucz36]

i posted the link to rik west's pic on top of this thread.
also scott's pic of his L. parahybana eating a chick. eww.
i'll have an interesting place for that pic in a couple days.

 

[Vys]

Originally posted by Wade
Some other fun facts about Avicularia-

The name "Avicularia" was coined and given to this species by none other than Carlos Linneus, the creator of our modern taxonomic system. I think he had a different generic name, however. It was also the first theraphosid to be given a latin name.

Around this time, an etching depicting a tarantula feeding on a hummingbird created a stir in Europe when it appeared because it seemed to upset "God's order" because invertebrates were not supposed to prey on vertebrates. I think it was the same illustration that inspired Linneus's to create the name.

Wade

Lol, that must have been pretty funny

Anyway, about Linneaus, I'm happy to hear someone mention him, although you make his name look mexican
His name was Carl von Linné, although people outside of scandinavia have a tendency to call him Linneaus.

 

[krucz36]

linneaus was an adopted name. scientists of the time often took adopted names to look more classically roman or intellectual.

 

[Vys]

Exactly what versions of his name are correct there is an interesting discussion about here:
http://biodiversity.uno.edu/~gophtax/_gophtax.96/0622.html

When his name was latinized on the title pages of his works it was evidently 'Carolus Linnaeus'

 

[Wade]

Originally posted by Vys

When his name was latinized on the title pages of his works it was evidently 'Carolus Linnaeus'

That's what I get for typing it off the top of my head! Serves him right though...he shoulda just stuck with Carl!

Wade

 

[Kenny]

Name..

Hi all.

Well as a Swede, I can say that his name is spelled and written Carl von Linne and also when spoken by Scandinavians and his face appears on the Swedish 100 crowns money bills and his face has been on these bills since very far back when the 100 bill was changed during the 60:ies.
Also on this bill his name is spelled Carl von Linne.

What happened and/or how with his latin appering spelling of his name came around I don't know

Kenny

 

[Wade]

Re: Name..

Originally posted by Kenny


What happened and/or how with his latin appering spelling of his name came around I don't know

Kenny

He did it himself, I think he wrote under the latinzed version. As Garth mentioned, latinizing your name was all the rage at the time, at least among intellectuals. Hell, he must have loved the language...he chose it for his taxonomic system, after all!

Wade

 

[dilleo]

Personally I don't why everybody got to talking on Linnaeus on the birdeater thread, somebody might want to talk about it and not even know it's on here. I would never change my name given to me, although he really didn't change his name. If you ask me he was a little excited about his taxonomic system. His own name for god sakes! I guess he couldn't help it. Lariz, great pic.

-La Rize
-dil leeo

lets all do it

 

[Kenny]

Hi,,
Yes,, your probably right. Wade

They liked to change their names in this fashion way back.

Well, you know "dilleo",,,,sometimes threads do "side-bumps".

Lariz do have a super pic that I liked too,I allways read his posts.

We allways read and exchange our opinions in the post and posts can "side-bump" as I said and go kinda out-of-topic for a second.

Kenny

 

[Vys]

You should be reading reading the document my link lead to

One of the points anyway was that he started using the latinized name when he was knighted.

Anyway, Kenny, that's him on the hundred crown bills? I ..hmm..haven't though about it for a while. I wonder if I ever knew. He has a wig on it, I think. That must have been the rage at that time as well .