Balfouri captured top honors at this year's British Tarantula Society exhibition.

Interesting article about tarantula keeping in general. A favorite quote: "There's a perception that people who keep tarantulas as pets must be a bit odd," he said, "but really, if you looked through the ranks of our members, you'd see we're all pretty normal."

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...arantula-society-theraphosidae-science-world/