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Tarantulas don’t have that good of an image. Many people fear them, and in movies, they have often been depicted as monsters. But when you get to know them better, you’ll find out that they are quite gorgeous and fascinating. And next to that, they are surprisingly great animals to have as pets \u2014 assuming you are not afraid of these crawlers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are 1000 different species of tarantulas identified, and many of them are also kept in captivity. The most common of them kept as pets are the Mexican redknee tarantula, the Brazilian black tarantula, the curly hair tarantula, the Costa Rican zebra tarantula, the pink toe tarantula and the greenbottle blue tarantula, but many more species are kept as pets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
On this page, we’ll illustrate the magnificent and mysterious world of tarantulas. We will talk about their peculiar shapes, their bizarre lifestyle and strange behaviour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The arachnids are arguably the most preposterous of the anthropod group that is already an outrageous organism”<\/p>Stanley A. Schultz & Marguerite J. Schultz
(The tarantula Keeper’s Guide)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nMorphology and anatomy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The morphology \u2014 or body plan \u2014 is quite different from other bugs. They don’t have that typical insect body plan. The body of tarantulas is divided into two main parts: the thorax (called cephalothorax or prosoma) and the abdomen (called opisthosoma). The abdomen is actually a somewhat wrong word for the rear section. Apart from a segment of the digestive system is located in the “abdomen”, a large part of it is filled with the heart and lungs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n