Kilimanjaro mustard baboon spider
The Kilimanjaro mustard baboon spider is a big, hairy tarantula from East Africa. In Africa, tarantulas are often called baboon spiders. It can be quite grumpy, so it is a spider to admire from a distance.
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Its body can be up to 5 centimetres long.
With its legs stretched out, it can be up to 15 centimetres across, about as wide as a grown-up's hand.
It was first described in 1873 by the German scientist Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker.
Experts say it is not a good pet for beginners, because it can be fairly aggressive.
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Its body is up to 5 centimetres long, and with its legs it can be 15 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pterinochilus chordatus
- Named by
- Gerstaecker, 1873
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- Africa
Where the facts come from
- Pterinochilus chordatus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by ChriKo. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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