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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Tarantulas."”.
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Assessing pace-of-life: Comparing metabolism and behavior in tarantulas
<p>Pace-of-Life Syndrome (PoLS) links physiology, behavior, and life history to understand how an organism lives and is under-researched in many invertebrate groups. In this study I used five tarantula species to assess if they follow the predictions of PoLS. I compared individual species as well …
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The effect of prey availability on metabolism and activity in the tarantula <i>phormictopus cancerides</i> (araneae: theraphosidae)
… metabolic rates (RMR) and foraging activities in tarantulas (<em>Phormictopus cancerides</em>). Juvenile tarantulas were separated into two feeding groups and fed once either every 5 or 30 days. Monthly feeding trials were preceded by RMR measurements. During feeding trials I compared differences …
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In the Dead Season
… eyes of a central child narrator. Rattlesnakes, tarantulas, drought, flood, birth, death, the poems present everyday occurrences and suggest that we often experience events before we have the context, knowledge, or emotional maturity to make sense of them in any reasonable manner. This …
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Behavioral ecology of the Colorado brown tarantula (Aphonopelma hentzi): Activities displayed around the burrow through juvenile group dispersal
… the activities of maternal (egg-attending) tarantulas to their non-maternal (not egg-attending) counterparts, as this may be a costly time for these egg-attending individuals. I concluded that maternal individuals tended to show reduced activity at the burrow entrance, however; these, …
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Mechanics of Righting Behavior in the Tarantula (Theraphosidae)
… to rotate the prosoma. The efficiency with which tarantulas conduct this stereotypical behavior displays how such morphologically complex organisms can have an extraordinary amount of control when moving their bodies
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Interactions of insecticidal spider peptide neurotoxins with insect voltage- and neurotransmitter-gated ion channels
Two families of peptide neurotoxins that target insect large-conductance calcium-activated potassium channels (BKCa) have been isolated from the venom of two unrelated spiders. The ƙ-TRTX-Ec2 toxins are a family of three homologous peptides isolated from the African tarantula, Eucratoscelus …