STARBURST BABOON SPIDER Tanzania

Join the team as they find and photograph the Starburst baboon spider (Pterinochilus murinus) in Tanzania © Guy Tansley 2018
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Music: Takamba by Jayme Stone

[@Gwyntomology]

Unreal! I have so much more appreciation for our little OBT after watching this. Learning about these creatures has taken me from being severely arachnophobic, to obsessed in a very short period of time. Thanks for sharing!

[@pedambr199]

beautiful spiders. thanks for safely returning them to their burrow :)

[@SquatsAndOats2plate]

Man, great job as always. Invaluable for the hobby to see these in the wild. I like how they used all the crevices.

[@brianmacc1934]

Music is brilliant

[@ericweis4114]

Your a brave man holding that one my freind.

[@mainemade300]

12:26 was those old bird nets hole ,that they use as borrows ,beautiful capris with the yellow golden bands an the chevrons stripes on it abdomen ,👍

[@davescott4327]

Awesome job guys..thanks so much for sharing. .keep up the great work 🖒's up .

[@pedambr199]

great videos, thanks for the upload

[@adiehunter76]

Brilliant footage. Some really nice spiders.

[@kellyfornez6588]

Wow finding nymphs out in the wild awsome

[@badAim2]

Would love to see this with my own eyes 👀 Was looking for OBT videos like this but this one is great too.

[@20PINKluvr]

The third one was really shy

[@iandavies7991]

Interesting. Are there different colour forms? Just discovered your Channel and it's brilliant. Criminally underviewed

[@bugsnstuff]

Yes, many regional colour forms for P. murinus. Thanks for the kind comments - spread the word!

[@sonnenblume5965]

Sehr tolles Video!

[@subutai5859]

i have a female obt and she is so agressive 😁

[@katecarlisle8383]

Saw babies...🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🤣😍

[@katecarlisle8383]

Aaaaw babies, thanks Google don't change my spelling check!😕

[@WildPortraitArtist]

10:30 haha yup, that's an OBT alright.

[@jasonpatrickdeleon4701]

awesome.. can you make next video finding Rosea or G.Pulchra :) and Nicaraguan Albo thanks

[@elonpleasebuyyt7863]

is this kigoma, tete, mikumi? i know there are a few different ones

[@Spiderdan-59]

Im about to break out into keeping old world species, the starburst baboon im after is the H MACULATA togo starburst baboon, 🕷🕸

[@dylanhinegardner6778]

Were some of the burrows webbed over when found? Do these guys close off entrances when in premolt?

[@bugsnstuff]

All were webbed over.

[@MauriceTarantulas]

I love mine but like my RCF as gone to ground!

[@RoyDumaw]

Thats awesome. And they are not that yellow/orange in the wild.

[@bugsnstuff]

Not in this area anyway.

[@WildPortraitArtist]

There are several different regional variants :)

[@marksbrisby]

i have 2 of these 1 spiderling and 1 large juvenile.

[@thereal3179]

Usumbara variant

[@stephenbrand5661]

Are all of the African tarantulas called baboon spiders?

[@bugsnstuff]

Yes. It's a commonly used local name such as Earth Tigers for Asian tarantulas and Bird eating spiders for South American tarantulas etc.

[@jerumd]

Wondering which locality are the red and orange ones like the ones in captivity??

[@20PINKluvr]

If I recall.. the areas with the reddish orange dirt

[@ervinsvent382]

So risky handling a P. Murinus but it is a very beautyful species Guys, a bite could mess you up for several days 🤣

[@bighashgang1990]

Na not really my bruh I been tagged by adult female Heteroscodra Maculata which is way worse, it's just localized pain and swelling, people make the bites out to be worse than they really are

[@hubertvancalenbergh9022]

I'm surprised it didn't react more defensively. An adult P. Murinus is usually extremely aggressive, and its bite extremely painful. Furthermore, unlike other tarantulas it doesn't proffer a warning bite (i.e. without venom) and injects venom with the first bite.

[@VDHmain]

I have 4 of them and none are aggressive. They are defensive if provoked when they have nowhere to run.

[@sourkarambit5330]

They 100% dry bite just not every spider does it