Below, you’ll find a picture of Karen’s P. metallica. Note elegant fangs. P. metallica is commonly known as the Gooty Ornamental tarantula, but . . . and this is the stunning part . . . they don’t really come from Gooty! The first specimen was found on a woodpile for a train in Gooty, India, one hundred years ago, and it took close to a hundred years for anyone to figure out where they really came from. A bloke named Hendriks braved Bengal tigers, heavily armed Indian outlaws, and worst of all, the Indian Customs Export Bureau to take seven tarantulas back to Europe. He successfully bred them.<\/p>\n
You’re looking at the child of one of those original seven!<\/p>\n
Primarily, however, this post is FILLER. I had to do something to push my REAL POST OF THE DAY a bit farther down the page. Formatting issues, folks: scroll down and you’ll see the problem.<\/p>\n
If I knew more HTML, *&#$!@ like this wouldn’t happen.<\/p>\n
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