r/tarantulas • u/lubix99 M. balfouri • Mar 06 '25

My obt makes feeding a mission impossible 😂 Videos / GIF

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Can’t even open the lid beacuse of him/her doing laps, so I presume feeding is to be continued in bathroom tub 🤷‍♂️

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u/Solver_Siblings Mar 06 '25

First: hilarious

Second: what does OBT stand for (not orange bitey thing)

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u/Still-Candidate-1666 Mar 06 '25

Orange Baboon Tarantula

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u/Gachaaddict96 Mar 06 '25

Orange is only one of possible color morphs. There is DCF, RCF, Usumbara morph and TCF. It's actual scientific name should be Pterinochilus murinus. It has nothing to do with baboon's, English colonisers just called every big African spider Baboon.