Do T's (in nature) eat T's?

[enlightenment]

I would imagine that you could take a few square miles in India or Africa, and you would find a good few species of different T, within.

I was just wondering, how common, if it all, would it be for one adult T to take on and eat another adult T, of a different species?

My guess is that it does happen, yet since T's are not really hunters in the strictest sense of the word, they are more wait and ambush predators, they don't really good seeking food, and remain close to their individual burrows.

What do you think?

Something that does happen, or something that would happen rarely?

Steve

[joeyboy]

I bet MM T's are often grabbed by females of different species. I mean I assume species recognise the drumming of their own species? So drum at the wrong burrow...she'll come out but not for sexy time.

[GRB]

Yes it does happen.

I'm sure there is an article about Aphonopelma suina and Grammostola mollicoma/(hentzi ?) inter specific predation. I'll see if I can dig it out later.

It's one of the reasons why species that overlap tend to have burrows spaced out a certain distance, or those species tend to be of differing sizes.