Which T's can make sound?

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I know that there are several species in the hobby that can 'stridulate' or make sound similar to hissing. Which species can do this that are common in the hobby?

 

[HESSWA]

I am sure that a C.Crawshayi can make a hissing sound along with H.Gigas and if I am not mistaken possibly the OBT as it occurs to me most species that hiss are african.

 

[Moltar]

Many can although some are more prone than others to do so. AFAIK all the Australian varieties stridulate. Try googling "rattlesnake tarantula" if you want to see something cool. Just off the top of my head, OBT, T blondi, P cambridgei, C crawshayi all stridulate. There are plenty more too. Did you know that velvet ants stridulate?

 

[Draiman]

Selenocosmia javanensis and Chilobrachys fimbriatus are two fairly commonly available species that readily stridulate.

 

[Uehling]

Pokies also stridulate.

 

[Moltar]

Pokies also stridulate.

That's what I thought but i've never experienced it. I've seen my 6" P. regalis furiously angry before but she didn't stridulate, just slapped at everything all around her and bent over backwards with heavy threat posture.

On the flip side I've heard my P cambridgei stridulate and apparently that's pretty unusual.

 

[Leetplayer]

The Chilobrachys sp "Penang" hisses as well.

 

[KoffinKat138]

Try googling "rattlesnake tarantula" if you want to see something cool.

That IS CREEPY!! :clap:

 

[Uehling]

That's what I thought but i've never experienced it. I've seen my 6" P. regalis furiously angry before but she didn't stridulate, just slapped at everything all around her and bent over backwards with heavy threat posture.

On the flip side I've heard my P cambridgei stridulate and apparently that's pretty unusual.

Here you go. This is mt female regalis stridulating. It's not very loud, but if you turn the volume up you can hear it. I also heard my P. pederseni stridulate the other night.

http://www.tarantulaslair.com/main/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=512

 

[rustym3talh3ad]

My Ceratogyrus bechuanicus is the first T ive ever had that stridulates. i was throwing in a dubia for her the other day and i lifted up the hide and she went right to her back and started cursing all kinds of dirty words at me lol....very vocal too if i may say. she didnt calm down or stop stridulating for at least 2 minutes then she went ape nuts on the dubia lol.

 

[aracnophiliac]

My blondi makes a incredible hissing sound!!! Louder then any cat I have ever heard..when it happened I was like What th Heck!!Weird thing is I have had her for over 5 years now and she has only kicked hairs at me once...She seems very docile and dosent hide very much..She does go in to her borrow once in a while but mostly she is crusin

 

[Sathane]

All tarantulas can make a sound - it just depends on how hard you throw them.

hehe. Many of them do - B. boehmei, P. murinus, C. crawshayi, P. regalis, to name a few.

 

[Wonder Walrus]

I believe Lasiodora parahybana can also stridulate, they're incredibly common in the hobby, but from what I understand their hissing is rather rare.

 

[ZergFront]

All tarantulas can make a sound - it just depends on how hard you throw them.

Bad Sathane, BAD!

Think I heard blondi and Psalmopoeus stridulate before on YouTube. That rattlesnake tarantula is awesome! Wonder how potent they are..

 

[Sunset]

I know the king baboon and the Blondi can make noises. Those are only two i know off. they make a hissing sound when piss off.

 

[Vidaro]

stridulation and hissing is not the same thing right? i remember seeing a vid on youtube where a t was actually rubing its fangs together making a noise rather than just puffing air. I think it was a selenocosmia sp.

couldnt find the vid i was talking about but here is another one you can clearly see the fangs rubing and if u listen close enough ull notice the difference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIURUvfPpnc

 

[Warren Bautista]

Kind of hard to see.

 

[Moltar]

stridulation and hissing is not the same thing right? i remember seeing a vid on youtube where a t was actually rubing its fangs together making a noise rather than just puffing air. I think it was a selenocosmia sp.

Correct. The ONLY noise tarantulas produce is via stridulation. Their lungs and mouth are at opposite ends of their body so they don't use forced air to produce sound the way we do. Depending on the species, the bristles that they rub together to stridulate can be located between the chelicerae and pedipalps, between the pedipalps and first leg or both. I'm not aware of them being located anywhere else but it's certainly possible.

This video demonstrates well that the king Baboon has stridulatory organs between the firt legs and the pedipalps. You can see the legs moving in concert with the rasping sound.

 

[BCscorp]

my L. parahybana hissed at me once...wasnt sure what it was for a minute, then I noticed she was p.o'd at me for grabbing her dish and startling her I guess.

 

[Zoltan]

Crickets stridulate too!

stridulation and hissing is not the same thing right?

When you say a tarantula is hissing, it's stridulation.

Depending on the species, the bristles that they rub together to stridulate can be located between the chelicerae and pedipalps, between the pedipalps and first leg or both. I'm not aware of them being located anywhere else but it's certainly possible.

Stridulatory organs can also be on the prolateral surfaces of the chelicerae (inner surfaces of the chelicerae), and on the retrolateral (posterior side) and prolateral (anterior side) of the coxae of the first and second leg respectively, and so on with II. and III., III. and IV. legs.