Interesting hunting behavior..

[gabrieldezzi]

Hello everyone, as I’ve said recently I picked up some N. incei slings, a pair. I have one that is a suspect male my girlfriend nicknamed “Jittie” and a suspect female my girlfriend nicknamed “Toogie”. Toogie immediately burrowed and covered it up with web, she was pretty fat already so I’m assuming she’s in premolt and I’m letting her be. Jittie, the suspect male is constantly out and is a very heavy webber.

However something interesting I noticed was with Jittie’s hunting patterns. I dropped a mealworm on his web to which he ran away (go figure!) but I watched in awe out of the corner of my eye as he turned around, and slowly motioned towards the worm, as if not to “spook it”. This hunting strategy reminded me much like a cat and really intrigued me, because out of all the tarantula’s I’ve owned I’ve never seen one exhibit such behavior. I did take a video. Which I will link below. Any thoughts on this?

 

[Marcostaco]

Hello everyone, as I’ve said recently I picked up some N. incei slings, a pair. I have one that is a suspect male my girlfriend nicknamed “Jittie” and a suspect female my girlfriend nicknamed “Toogie”. Toogie immediately burrowed and covered it up with web, she was pretty fat already so I’m assuming she’s in premolt and I’m letting her be. Jittie, the suspect male is constantly out and is a very heavy webber.

However something interesting I noticed was with Jittie’s hunting patterns. I dropped a mealworm on his web to which he ran away (go figure!) but I watched in awe out of the corner of my eye as he turned around, and slowly motioned towards the worm, as if not to “spook it”. This hunting strategy reminded me much like a cat and really intrigued me, because out of all the tarantula’s I’ve owned I’ve never seen one exhibit such behavior. I did take a video. Which I will link below. Any thoughts on this?

Nothing out of the ordinary. It got spooked initially, realized it was food and slowly went for it.

 

[gabrieldezzi]

Nothing out of the ordinary. It got spooked initially, realized it was food and slowly went for it.

Still really cool to witness nonetheless!

 

[fcat]

I love how at the end he goes all murderous on it, as if he wasn't initially scared of it

I notice a lot of "cat like" nuances too, why I love them so much

 

[viper69]

Can’t view

 

[Mustafa67]

Me too, I can’t watch it

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

My N fasc initially runs, too. When you’re that small, it’s probably the safest bet.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Video didn’t work .

 

[HOITrance]

Video doesn’t work. With that said my female Incei is quite the hunter and slowly stalks its prey before pouncing.

 

[gabrieldezzi]

Video doesn’t work. With that said my female Incei is quite the hunter and slowly stalks its prey before pouncing.

A few people said it worked, a few said it didn't lol. It's pretty obvious what happened though, just was cool to get an actual video this time!

 

[fcat]

A few people said it worked, a few said it didn't lol. It's pretty obvious what happened though, just was cool to get an actual video this time!

How did you upload it/append it to the post and with what device, maybe there's a reason only some of us could. I'm viewing in chrome on a Pixel 6

 

[Glorfindel]

Nice Video...
Slow, Cautious, Approach...what is this tasty morsel?

 

[gabrieldezzi]

Nice Video...
Slow, Cautious, Approach...what is this tasty morsel?

I'm just so used to feeding T's like my Pampho's who will just drag crickets into the pits of their burrows with no questions asked