I wondered: Did Clarabelle know us? “Spiders are individuals like everyone else,” Sam assured us. He’s had pet tarantulas since he was thirteen, and in his lab in Ohio, he had about five hundred of them. Through the years of interacting with them, Sam learned that within the same species, some individuals seemed calm and others nervous. Some changed their behavior over time and appeared to grow calmer in his presence. Later, with Nic, I’d visit his tarantula lab. One of his students noted that something unusual happened when Sam walked in. Even though many of his tarantulas were naturally
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That’s crazy!
