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I occasionally hold my g. rosea, since she is generally very placid and has never once acted cranky, though I am always cautious, and prepared to receive a bite.
I don't hold her especially often, but sometimes when I open the container, she'll start to climb out - which is quite easy for her as her substrate is high to prevent falls. So I'll offer her my hand and she'll walk right out. Sometimes she just sits there, with her pedipalps and forelegs wrapped around the underside of my hand, and sometimes she goes for a walk on my arm, or on an old towel in my lap.
Eventually, of course, I decide to put her back, and I've noticed that sometimes, particularly if she has been actively exploring a little more, she seems to wander around the perimeter of her container after I put her back. She keeps feeling the place where the lid joins with her forelegs and pedipalps - almost as if she knows that it used to be open, and she's closed up inside again.
Sometimes I'll come back after doing whatever it is, and if she's still wandering and I open the lid, she'll come right out again. Other times, she relaxes, as if she's satisfied with her "walkies" for the moment.
I know that she is not really brilliant, and I don't want to anthropomorphosize her, but it really does seem like she knows she was somewhere else before, and wants to go back to wherever she was.
Has anyone else noticed this?
Greensleeves
I don't hold her especially often, but sometimes when I open the container, she'll start to climb out - which is quite easy for her as her substrate is high to prevent falls. So I'll offer her my hand and she'll walk right out. Sometimes she just sits there, with her pedipalps and forelegs wrapped around the underside of my hand, and sometimes she goes for a walk on my arm, or on an old towel in my lap.
Eventually, of course, I decide to put her back, and I've noticed that sometimes, particularly if she has been actively exploring a little more, she seems to wander around the perimeter of her container after I put her back. She keeps feeling the place where the lid joins with her forelegs and pedipalps - almost as if she knows that it used to be open, and she's closed up inside again.
Sometimes I'll come back after doing whatever it is, and if she's still wandering and I open the lid, she'll come right out again. Other times, she relaxes, as if she's satisfied with her "walkies" for the moment.
I know that she is not really brilliant, and I don't want to anthropomorphosize her, but it really does seem like she knows she was somewhere else before, and wants to go back to wherever she was.
Has anyone else noticed this?
Greensleeves