Member News: Wellington Zoo breeds Goliath birdeater tarantulas

April 19, 2020
Mary Ellen Amodeo
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Species360 member Wellington Zoo has become the first zoo in 20 years to successfully breed Goliath bird-eating tarantulas — and the first ever in Australasia!

The Goliath tarantula, which can have a leg span up to 30cm – about the size of a dinner plate – are the largest species of arachnid in the world.

“…The zoo’s team leader of reptiles and invertebrates, Dave Laux, says that according to the Zoological Information Management System (ZIMS), a global network of zoo records, no other zoo has recorded breeding the spiders in the past two decades. Read more from the New Zealand Herald.