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Document Type
Research
Abstract
On July 17, 1920, Mr. Robert Clark of Gilbert, Iowa presented the writer with a live female tarantula which he found in a bunch of bananas in his grocery store. He believed that the specimen must have been in hiding for several weeks prior to its capture as it was not observed until the last bananas were removed. A battery jar, with sand in the bottom, in the writer's home, served as a cage for the fifteen months the creature remained in captivity.
Publication Date
1922
Journal Title
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science
Volume
29
Issue
1
First Page
187
Last Page
189
Copyright
©1922 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Hartzell, Albert
(1922)
"Observation on the Habits of a Tarantula in Captivity,"
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 29(1), 187-189.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol29/iss1/45