Hi guys, it's Em. Today I'm going to be doing a Creature Feature on one of my absolutely favorite creatures.

嗨！大家好，我是Em。今天我的物種專題要來介紹一種我最喜愛的生物之一

Today I'm going to be talking to you about tarantulas,

今天我要跟大家分享的是:大蘭多蜘蛛(Tarantula)

and in particular one of my favorite species of tarantula: the Brazilian Black Spider.

在捕鳥蛛裡面我最喜歡的物種─巴西黑蜘蛛( Brazilian Black Spider)

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如果你還沒訂閱，麻煩你按下訂閱按鈕。加入我們，這是一個有趣的地方，讓我們互相幫助成為更好的飼主吧!

It's a fun place to be and we all help each other out with being better pet keepers.

不囉嗦了，向各位介紹─Bella

[resuming normal speed] Without further ado, I would like to introduce you to Bella! Whooo!

Bella從南美洲來的，畢竟她是一隻巴西黑蜘蛛

Bella would come from South America. After all, she is the Brazilian Black Spider.

不用擔心，別把她跟巴西流浪蜘蛛(香蕉蜘蛛)(brazilian wandering spider)搞混了，那個毒性強多了，我不會去抓它

Don't worry, don't confuse her with the Brazilian wandering spider,

Bella是蛛形綱生物(ARACHNID)，不是昆蟲

which is even more venomous,

昆蟲有六隻腳，而蛛形綱生物則有八隻

and I wouldn't be picking up a Brazilian wandering spider.

無脊椎動物(INVERTEBRATE)的骨骼長在體外(外骨骼)

Bella over here is an arachnid, not an insect. An insect has six legs,

我們哺乳類動物骨頭在身體內部，因為我們有內骨骼(ENDOSKELETON)

whereas arachnids have eight legs. Invertebrate means that she has her skeleton on the outside.

她的外骨骼(EXOSKELETON)就像她穿著一層盔甲

You and I, we're mammals. We have our bones on the inside because we have endoskeletons.

他們不是真正的骨頭，基本上是一種骨骼構造，能提供她保護並且支撐她

Her exoskeleton is basically like a suit of armor that she wears. They're not true bones.

她體內沒有骨頭，而且非常柔軟

It's basically a skeletal structure to help her be protected and to keep her upright.

在她是幼蛛的時候，她非常小，但她是如何穿著充滿限制外骨骼，又能長到像現在一樣大的呢?

On the inside, she has no bones whatsoever. She is very, very soft on the inside.

這是一個我最愛的蜘蛛小知識

As a spiderling, Bella would have been really small,

所以怎麼發生的呢?這發生在所有的蜘蛛身上

but how does she grow to this size, when she wears such a restrictive exoskeleton?

假設我的手是Bella，她花了好幾天吃了很多食物，然後她開始變得很懶散

This is one of my favorite spider facts. So what happens, and this is with all spiders,

最後她爬到一個很棒又黑暗的環境，那裡能讓她感到受到保護，然後她把身體翻過來

pretend my hand is Bella.

她破壞她的外骨骼，從裡面鑽出她柔軟的身體，然後留下她舊的外骨骼

She spends a couple of days eating lots of food, and she starts to get really, really sluggish.

世界上的每一隻蜘蛛都這麼做

Eventually, what she does is she actually crawls into somewhere nice and dark where she can feel protected.

這是Bella的外骨骼，她把身上所有東西都脫掉

She'll lay on her back. She actually breaks her exoskeleton,

所有的蜘蛛都有毒牙

and she pulls her new, softer body out, and she leaves the old exoskeleton behind.

她把她的毒牙脫掉，她也把她的腹部脫掉

Every single spider in the world does this.

翻過來之後我們可以看到這個中空的孔是她將自己鑽出來的地方

So, this is Bella's old exoskeleton, and they shed literally everything!

這是個成長的過程，所以在蜘蛛小時候常常這麼做

All spiders have venomous fangs. She sheds her fangs.

但當長成像Bella一樣的成體時，他們一年只會脫一兩次皮

She sheds her abdomen at the back here, and you can actually see if I turn it around,

我想讓你們看看Bella有多溫柔，所以我要將她拿出來放在手上

You can see the hollowed out honeycomb area where she's actually pulled herself out of.

如果你對蜘蛛有恐懼又正好在看這個影片，別走開，她不會跳到鏡頭上

This is a growth thing, so a lot of spiderlings will do this much more frequently when they are babies,

我不會嚇到她跳起來，我想要展現她正面的那一面

whereas an adult Bella's size, she'll probably do it maybe once or twice a year.

別擔心，Bella不是住在這裡面，事實上她等等要跟著我去工作

I want to show you just how gentle Bella is, so I'm going to get her out onto my hand.

這是她的外出籠，所以她可以把腳伸出去穩定住她自己

If you have a fear of spiders and you're actually watching this video,

他們是很脆弱的生物，我不想讓他們在很大的盒子裡面晃來晃去

Well done to you. Like, stick around. She's not gonna jump at the camera.

出來吧Bella，準備出來囉!寶貝你該出來囉

I'm not going to do any jump scares with her at all. I really want to show her off in the most positive light.

這是很美很美的Bella，你們可以看到她事實上非常緩慢，她非常可愛

Don't worry, Bella doesn't actually live in here. She's actually coming to work with me later.

(警告)我要把她往前靠近鏡頭一些，如果你真的很怕蜘蛛。我要把她靠近一些讓你們可以仔細看看她

This is her travel box so that she can actually put her arms out and stable herself.

她是一隻巴西黑捕鳥蛛，我其實比較喜歡稱她為巴西黑蜘蛛

Like I said, they are very delicate creatures,

因為捕鳥蛛讓她聽起來很可怕

and I wouldn't want her to hurt herself flying around in a larger enclosure.

蜘蛛常常被當作硬派的人的寵物，要養蜘蛛必須得非常硬派

Come on, Bella. Are you ready to come out? That's it.

老實說，我更加擔心抓倉鼠的時候，因為倉鼠咬人是最慘的

No, darling. We have to go—No, you have to come out. Come on.

我被倉鼠咬的次數是所有動物裡面最多的QQ

So this here is beautiful, beautiful Bella. You can see she's actually really, really relaxed.

有件事我應該早點提到，她是有毒的

She's a very slow spider. She's very, very, very sweet.

Bella的毒性大概跟蜜蜂或黃蜂一樣

Here's a little warning for you guys. I am going to hold her a bit closer to the camera now,

真正會發生問題的情況是如果你對毒性產生過敏反應

so if you're really, really not cool with spiders, just be warned

正因如此我有準備腎上腺素注射劑以防萬一

I'm gonna hold her a bit closer so you can have a really good look at her.

但我抓蜘蛛已經10年了，卻從來沒有被咬過

So she is a Brazilian Black Tarantula.

牠們是非常有禮貌的生物，牠們不想被打擾時會讓你知道

I actually like to call her Brazilian Black Spider because tarantula makes it sound really, really scary.

像Bella如果不想被抓時，她會縮在角落，並且嶄露她的毒牙

I think spiders are often thought of as like, tough-guy pets

另外她也會在不想被抓時想要試著逃跑

that some people have to be super tough in order to keep a spider.

如果你還是想要抓她而卻沒有接收到她的訊息時，這時她還有一件事能做

Honestly, I'm much more worried about picking up my hamster because hamster bites are the worst!

你們有看到她毛茸茸的腹部嗎?

And I've been bitten by more hamsters in my life than almost any other animal.

她的腹部覆蓋著刺毛(urticating hairs)

Here's something I probably should have told you earlier. She is venomous.

當她陷入困境而感到害怕時，她會使用後腳將那些毛踢到空氣中

Bella's venom is about as bad as a bee or a wasp sting.

就像玻璃纖維一樣，當它們進入你的皮膚、眼睛甚至是肺裡面，會非常的癢

The real issue comes when, if you're bitten by a spider, if you are allergic to the venom.

當你很癢的時候，基本上她就有機會可以逃跑到安全的地方

For that reason, I actually keep adrenaline shots in my house, just in case.

如果你忽視她的警告，執意要抓她，你也是有點自作自受

But I've been holding spiders for over ten years, and I've never once been bitten.

Bella相對來說算年輕，她6歲了，但如果好好的照顧，她能夠活到20歲

They actually are very, very courteous creatures.

公蛛活的時間就實在是很短了

They let you know with no uncertain terms that they don't want to be bothered.

他們的任務就是跟雌性交配

With Bella here, if she didn't want to be held, she would bunch herself up into a corner,

很多公蛛最後都被母蛛吃掉，就像我的前男友(笑)

and she'd display her venomous fangs.

你們看我有兩顆眼睛，但是Bella不只有兩顆，她有八顆，就像她的腿有八隻一樣

Something else that she would do if she didn't want to be held is she would try to run away.

Bella的身體有三的部分，像我們一樣，她有一個頭部

If you're still trying to hold them and you're still not getting the message,

再來中間部分是她的胸部，而尾端像氣球一樣的就是她的腹部，就是她產生網的地方

there's one more thing that she can do.

她並不像花園蜘蛛一樣棲息在蜘蛛網上，她太重而且太脆弱

Do you see how furry her abdomen is? It's really silky and furry.

她的網子比較像是個吊床

Well, that abdomen there is covered in something called urticating hairs.

她比較像是地棲動物，她用她的身體最後部分來織網

And if she was in a real pickle and she was really scared,

她這裡有兩個小小的吐絲器(SPINNERETS)收在這裡，但如果她要織網的時候，就會放下來幫助她，織好之後就坐在上面像吊床一樣

what she would do is she would actually use her back legs to kick that hair into the air.

Bella是個獵食者，她會等食物自己跑過來

They're almost like fiberglass fibers. When they get on your skin or in your eyes

她會從網子偵測到小昆蟲像是蟋蟀或蝗蟲

or—God forbid—in your lungs, they are so itchy.

請各位記住，雖然我很喜歡蜘蛛，但我不希望任何人受傷，所以當你在屋子或外面看到他們，請不要用手去抓

And while you're itching, it basically gives her a chance to walk away to safety.

用一個杯子和一張紙，用紙張小心的把它趕到杯子裡，因為它們的腳可能會受傷

So if you're ignoring a tarantula's signs that they don't want to be held

我希望今天大家可以看到Bella是非常友善的蜘蛛

and you still go ahead, you kind of deserve a little bit of a nibble.

她不想到處去傷害別人，正如你所看到的，她是非常放鬆的動物

Bella here is still relatively young. She's about six years old,

感謝大家的收看，我們很快地在下部影片再見

but with the proper care, she could live up to 20 years.

掰掰~

The males live substantially shorter lifespans.

別忘記訂閱

Their mission in life really is to mate with females.

However... [giggle] a lot of them end up getting eaten by the females.

Much like most of my exes....

Do you see over here, I've got two eyes! [giggle]

Well, Bella doesn't have two eyes. Just like her legs, she has eight.

Bella has three parts to the body. It's very, very simple.

Like us, she has her head;

and then she's got a middle part, which is the thorax;

and that big balloon at the back, that's her abdomen.

And that's where she actually produces her web from.

She doesn't perch on a spiderweb, like a garden spider would.

She's far too heavy for that, far too delicate for that.

So hers is more like a hammock.

She's more of a terrestrial animal, and she spins her web from the very back of her body.

She's got two little spinnerets just here, which are up backwards,

but if she wanted to web, they'd come down and they'd help her to string a web.

She'd sit in it like a hammock. And Bella is a predator.

She would actually wait for food to come to her,

and she would detect little insects on her hammock. Things like crickets and locusts.

Just remember guys, as much as I love spiders, I don't want anyone to get hurt.

So if you do see a spider around your house or outside,

The best thing to do is not to pick them up with your hands.

Make sure you use a glass with a piece of paper,

but be careful putting the glass over the paper to trap the spider

because you can hurt their little legs if you do trap them.

I hope that you managed to see today that Bella's actually an incredibly gentle, very sweet spider.

She really doesn't want to be going around hurting anyone,

and as you can see, she's a very very relaxed animal.

Thanks so much for watching, guys! We'll see you in another video shortly.

Are you gonna wave? Say... [voicing Bella] Bye, bye! [giggles]

...Bye.

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