Social rainforest tarantulas

While only a small species with females reaching a body length of around 30mm and a leg span of 60mm, what’s particularly interesting is their extended maternal care. Many tarantulas will tolerate their own offspring for a short stretch of time, around a week, but the social rainforest tarantulas happily cohabitate with their young for periods of over a three years or once they mature. Not only do these patient mothers allow the young to live at home, they also let their young feed from captured prey held in their chelicerae. Siblings share both living quarters and prey as well, not dissimilar to social huntsman spiders