Will a fall kill a sling?

[Xerinex]

My Cobalt blue sling 1.5cm that i try to rehouse juz decide to bolt n fall off my shirt and hit the concrete ground around the height of 1m. After that it still can bolt but i think it bolt slower(not sure). Can it survive the fall? I put it into the enclosure n it seems ok n climb to a side.

Heres a picture of it

 

[moricollins]

My Cobalt blue sling 1.5cm that i try to rehouse juz decide to bolt n fall off my shirt and hit the concrete ground around the height of 1m. After that it still can bolt but i think it bolt slower(not sure). Can it survive the fall? I put it into the enclosure n it seems ok n climb to a side.

Can it survive? Yes. Will it survive? No idea.

My recommendation for ALL work with the tarantula is to have the container on the floor, open space around you, extra deli cups around to catch the tarantula with if it runs.

 

[Psychocircus91]

Can it survive? Yes. Will it survive? No idea.

My recommendation for ALL work with the tarantula is to have the container on the floor, open space around you, extra deli cups around to catch the tarantula with if it runs.

^This is very good advice for future reference.

Slings are less likely to sustain a fatal injury from a fall, but anything is possible. Look for any seepage/ leaking, especially around the abdomen. Fingers crossed it will be okay.

 

[Salmonsaladsandwich]

The reason why tarantulas are susceptible to falling injuries to begin with is just because they combine being soft bodied with being freakishly large for an arthropod. The smaller something is, the less vulnerable it is to gravity. "When dropped down a mineshaft, a mouse lives, a rat dies, a man breaks, a horse splashes" yada yada.

Small bugs are generally fine when they fall. I'm sure a 1.5 cm sling will be fine from a 1-meter drop. Something that small probably doesn't even have a lethal terminal velocity, so I would be surprised if a 1.5 cm sling could be injured by a fall from any height unless its abdomen was extremely full to the point of bursting.

 

[viper69]

Might die, might not

The reason why tarantulas are susceptible to falling injuries to begin with is just because they combine being soft bodied with being freakishly large for an arthropod. The smaller something is, the less vulnerable it is to gravity. "When dropped down a mineshaft, a mouse lives, a rat dies, a man breaks, a horse splashes" yada yada.

I'm sure a 1.5 cm sling will be fine from a 1-meter drop. Something that small probably doesn't even have a lethal terminal velocity, so I would be surprised if a 1.5 cm sling could be injured by a fall from any height unless its abdomen was extremely full to the point of bursting.

Curious what is the lethal velocity for a sling? And how did you determine this?

 

[Salmonsaladsandwich]

Curious what is the lethal velocity for a sling? And how did you determine this?

I didn't determine the lethal velocity for a sling, I merely made the educated guess that because mass correlates to the velocity acheived by gravity and that very small animals generally cannot achieve a lethal velocity by falling, it is highly unlikely that a 1.5 cm sling would suffer from a falling injury the way an adult tarantula might. (For reference, a mouse does not acheive a lethal velocity by falling and you can drop a mouse from any height. An adult tarantula is more delicate than a mouse due to its soft fluid filled abdomen, but the sling is much, much smaller than a mouse).

 

[SonsofArachne]

The reason why tarantulas are susceptible to falling injuries to begin with is just because they combine being soft bodied with being freakishly large for an arthropod. The smaller something is, the less vulnerable it is to gravity. "When dropped down a mineshaft, a mouse lives, a rat dies, a man breaks, a horse splashes" yada yada.

Small bugs are generally fine when they fall. I'm sure a 1.5 cm sling will be fine from a 1-meter drop. Something that small probably doesn't even have a lethal terminal velocity, so I would be surprised if a 1.5 cm sling could be injured by a fall from any height unless its abdomen was extremely full to the point of bursting.

I can attest to this. About three years ago my A. hentzi sling, at the time about 1/8 inch, high-dived of a 5 foot shelf. Still doing fine as of today. At a small size they just don't have enough mass to be damaged in a fall.

 

[jrh3]

Time for a roof top scientific study, myth busters style.

 

[moricollins]

Time for a roof top scientific study, myth busters style.

Humans or tarantulas going off the roof?

 

[jrh3]

Humans or tarantulas going off the roof?

Both at the same time so you can watch it on the way down.

 

[KaroKoenig]

Both at the same time so you can watch it on the way down.

Need lots of data points for good statistics. I can think of quite a few humans to do this experiment with, but who in his right mind would give away a sac of slings for this?

 

[jrh3]

Need lots of data points for good statistics. I can think of quite a few humans to do this experiment with, but who in his right mind would give away a sac of slings for this?

maybe an LP breeder with 1000 slings,

 

[Baby T]

Humans or tarantulas going off the roof?

Humans please

 

[Tarantuland]

I dropped a d diamantinensis from 4-5ft onto a wooden floor and it was totally fine. But I don't recommend it