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Podcast: Tom's Big Spiders - Tarantulas and Inverts
Episode: The "Domestication" of Tarantulas - Why our Pets Are Not Quite Wild Animals
Description: A couple of years ago, I stumbled on an article about the "inadvertent domestication" of animals raised for the sole purpose of being released back into the wild. This is when, despite our best efforts, captive animals were becoming inadvertently domesticated by temporarily or even permanently adapting to a captive environment , which was making them less fit to survive in the wild. This could often occur within a single generation of captive-reared animals.And that got me thinking...Many species of tarantulas have been actively bred in captivity for decades, so is it possible (or...