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i was wondering if my t enjoys listening to my music
My Tarantulas don't care about music, but if I play anything by Basement Jaxx, all of my Avicularia (Avic, Versicolor, Metallica) will come out of their webs and start making circles around their enclosure. I have 8 genus of Tarantula and only the Avicularia respond to Basement Jaxx.Originally posted by deifiler
My P.Regalis used to come out of it's nest when I played cannibal corpse. Even though it was due to the vibrations scaring/luring it out it still was pretty nifty seeing it come out to certain tunes...
Ahh that's good enough for the hypothesis of "tarantulas can't hear" to be formed for me.Originally posted by skinheaddave
I don't think you can count feeling of the sound-waves as hearing unless the nervous system is set up in such a way as to interpret the vibration as sound. The cochlea basically has different parts attuned to different frequencies and this is what allows us to hear the different frequencies. I know that Ts can feel the vibrations, but I don't imagine they interpret it as sound at all.
Cheers,
Dave
That's a mighty subjective definition of hearing you got, Dave.Originally posted by skinheaddave
I don't think you can count feeling of the sound-waves as hearing unless the nervous system is set up in such a way as to interpret the vibration as sound. The cochlea basically has different parts attuned to different frequencies and this is what allows us to hear the different frequencies. I know that Ts can feel the vibrations, but I don't imagine they interpret it as sound at all.