Tarantulas: The Delicate Cannibal

Because of how octopus have 8 limbs, people think they're related to spiders. They're right but they aren't closely related. It goes back millions of years ago, back when spiders were still being evolved into what they are today while they were still crustaceans but what split them apart were the terms hard-bodied and soft-bodied crustaceans. Spiders were known as shelled organisms because they evolved to have a shelled exoskeleton to ward off predators while soft bodied are more flexible especially when escaping a predator. They were both from an 8-legged crustacean but no one is 100% sure what it was and how 8 legs originated from. 8 Legs VS. 8 Legs (It's funny because they're related):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=108&v=TplU3WNOggQ

People keep saying "white people are crazy" and I know this is a great joke but when it comes to spiders, spiders are cute! How can anyone not let a tarantula crawl on them? I don't really remember Steve Irwin having much time with tarantulas in his show(s) so I'm glad his daughter is. Also, Harriet is such a good name for a harry spider even though it sounds like a boy name.

I've been thinking of making a new blog on all spiders not just tarantulas (on the same profile of course). I'm not saying that I'm done with my tarantula blog at all and that I have been inspired with this topic fully till the present moment. But I also want to branch out and add more topics to the list of what I want to talk about. Tarantulas aren't my only favorite spider and that my second favorite family is the Salticidae family which are the jumping spiders. I also want to talk about my upmost favorite specie, the wasp spider including the ogre-faced spider! I do certainly learn alongside you when researching more and more about tarantulas but I would love to learn more about their related cousins, ancestors, grandmas, grandpas, friends, co-workers.... as well so I wouldn't feel as if I was limited to do only one family of the spider.

I recently made a new theory about the movie "Charlotte's Web." I'm pretty sure you've heard of the story by either a children's book or by the movie since it's so popin' popular. The story represents the spider as this wise, kind spider that helps the main character (the pig) along with the side characters but representing her in that way doesn't mean she's really is behind the scenes. The spider was only acting as if she was the pig's friend to stab the pig in the back at the end.  I'm just jokin' ya. I'm not actually theory-crazy! April fools!

This is the slideshow I was talking about that I presented to the panelists. It took around 2 months to make it (I was busy okay). I put the lecture notes down below so you can see what I said for each slide on my presentation. I didn't even use my note cards and instead, looked at each slide and summarized it in my own words but I still went through all those details on the lecture notes. Other than that, I hope you learn something out of this: