Right, how does this work then!

If I were to stick my finger on top of my thai black T, I reckon I would have a good chance of being bitten.

Ditto my Cobalt, ditto my Desert Arizona Scorp.

Indeed, the first mentioned gets well pissed off even when I go to spray it's tank!

However....

Tonight, I literally watched a locust crawl right over the Thai black, and it did not bother it's backside! No attempt to move, no attempt to attack the locust, nothing!

So, like I say, how does that work?

I dont mind if i get a bit of my food on me either.

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No, but you would think that the natural inclination would be to either eat the thing, or if no hungry, move in some way.

if its not considered a threat would you bother moving?

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Well if I touched it with my fingertip, which is about the same size as the locust, I bet it would move!!!!

Because it can tell the difference between you and a locust. You're suggesting theres no difference between you poking it with a finger and something it's perfectly familiar with, something that it knows fits below it in the predator/prey arrangement, crawling on it's back.

you = large, coming from above and unpredictable = threat
locust = food = no threat.

Mason

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But that is the first time I had put a locust in there, thus it would not be familiar with it?

Not being pedantic, just curious!

PS - The scorps and T's do not seem as interested in eating the locusts anyway, they appear to prefer black cricks.

sorry I assumed they were it's regular food.


still applies, generally a T is not going to see something small and crawly as a threat. A giant hand coming in like some kid of bird or other predator it will react to.

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You know those 'orrible vids of people who feed their T's adult mice? I have to wonder what sort of T's they are, I could never imagine my Baboon, Cobalt, or Thai Black, taking down anything that size!

Not that I would do this, natch.

Any T would take a mouse. It's prey... it may lose or get injured but it would take it...
Ones in vids iv seen have been T. blondi, A. geniculata, B. smithi etc