G. Carnell said:SPIDER FREAKS STAY IN YOUR FORUM!!!!!!!
Those were unexpecting, wandering mature males though.-palau- said:After watching scorpions kill and eat tarantulas on "Scorpion Tail" on Animal Planet last night, I think the emperor would kill the blondi.
cashewman1 said:Well it made quiteee a show of T's getting eaten by scorps, and seemed to make it look like T's are more of a naturl prey to scorps then scorps are to t's so im stilll gonna say scorps ftw
Well "true spiders" usually suck out the inside, leaving the exoskeleton intact, but Mygalomorphs, the suborder that includes tarantulas, have chelicera side by side, instead of facing each other, and and the undersides usually have teeth or ridges, which the fangs act on to masticate prey, the bases of the pedipalps may be toothed or ridged too. Generally, when my tarantulas eat, there are no recognizable pieces of the prey left over, they dismember and mash them up pretty thoroughly.cashewman1 said:I know absolutely nothing about T's so correct me if im wrong. But i was under the impression that spiders just injected venom and then sucked the inside out of the prey. Or do they actually eat and dismember it like a scorp would?
First, this is assuming the tarantula WANTED to attack the scorp first, u said they would ignore each other.-- Which means it would be whichever decided to strike. And the Scorp can almost always inject the T with venom even if the T grabbed the scorp, injected it, and did whatever to subdue it, the scorp would keep on sting sting sting....CopperInMyVeins said:I'd say the tarantula is probably a lot more likely to get the first strike, and would probably be better at subduing the scorpion.
I'm saying that if they were put in a confined space together, the only way a "fight" like this would occur anyway, I think the tarantula would be the quicker to react. I'm pretty sure one or both of them would want to attack if they were confined it that way, I'm saying the match up would never happen if they weren't. From that I've seen of emperor scorpions in action, they're fairly slow and clumsy in comparison. I'm not talking about scorpions in general, but emperors specifically. Tarantulas are pretty good at not getting hurt when subduing other invertibrates, I don't think they would lose all their caution if the prey is a scorpion. The Hysterocrates will actually hold it's 4 front legs up off the ground to keep the struggling roach from kicking them.ShadowBlade said:First, this is assuming the tarantula WANTED to attack the scorp first, u said they would ignore each other.-- Which means it would be whichever decided to strike. And the Scorp can almost always inject the T with venom even if the T grabbed the scorp, injected it, and did whatever to subdue it, the scorp would keep on sting sting sting....
That's odd, I've actually read the opposite, that it's more effective on rodents, not all vertebrates, but specifically rodents than anything else, including invertebrates. I've never fed a vertebrate to one, but if you say that a mouse will die in about a minute, that definitely backs this up. I've seen the orange head roaches still struggling and moving 15 or even 20 minutes after capture.ShadowBlade said:Apparently T venom is much more potent on cold-blooded animals then on warmbloods. That's why a mouse can take atleast a minute to die from a T bite. (Only a bite) lol.