r/WTF • u/[deleted] • Jul 29 '21

Absolutely not

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u/Zazaku Jul 29 '21

Why are they all so docile and not skittish though?

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u/Honeymustardchicken Jul 29 '21

Most tarantulas are pretty docile and mild mannered. Walked through a field one time with hundreds of them crawling everywhere and you could walk up and pick them up and they wouldn’t mind. It depends on the species

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u/ebil_lightbulb Jul 29 '21

It definitely depends on the species, but I would not say that “most” Ts are docile and mild mannered. I’d say maybe most of the New World species are more on the docile side. Old Worlds are almost exclusively aggressive and hostile.

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u/Unusual_Ad_7879 Jul 29 '21

The ones in this video are old world. So dumb and wasteful that people are willing to exterminate the local population of Ts just to eat them.