Sunday, November 8, 2009

Gray fox's co-napper


I had missed it completely.

The napping tarantula hanging from the wall of the sandstone grotto.

Behind the sleepy gray fox.

My fellow camera trapper and Cal Fish & Game biologist Craig Fiehler pointed it out to me. 

It seems the spider joined the fox in its high noon siesta.

It just hung there peacefully for at least a half hour.

Just wanted to pointed it out. 
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6 comments:

  1. John W. WallNovember 8, 2009 at 12:49 PM

    I never would have thought a tarantula would hang out like that. Such a photographically productive grotto.

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  2. RetrievermanNovember 9, 2009 at 6:42 AM

    I bet that gray fox would try to eat a tarantula, but the tarantula is better off that it didn't pick a cave with a white-nosed coati in residence:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moxNqK1qqvQ

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  3. randomtruthNovember 9, 2009 at 7:20 AM

    Maybe the tarantula was trying to decide how big his appetite and cojones were... :)

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  4. JasonNovember 9, 2009 at 10:41 AM

    Hi Chris,

    I know this comment is a little off topic but can you help me id the species of wood rat living under my cabin in Colorado? I have a few pictures here:

    http://picasaweb.google.com/thegreengrassgrows/WoodRat#

    If you would prefer to reply in email mine is thegreengrassgrows@gmail.com

    Thank you,
    jason

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  5. JasonNovember 9, 2009 at 10:43 AM

    Sorry the link was:

    http://picasaweb.google.com
    /thegreengrassgrows/WoodRat#

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  6. Camera Trap CodgerNovember 9, 2009 at 12:22 PM

    Thanks RM -- Great footage of the coati, who had no problem with the uticaceous hairs. Must have been a tame subject for that kind of footage.

    Jason, that's a fine specimen of a bushy-tailed wood rat you have there. And by the way, here are about six species of wood rats in Colorado.

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