Do tarantulas make noise?

[Tboltguy1000]

Hi all,

A few minutes ago, I heard what sounded like either my Grammostola rosea climbing or scurrying around her enclosure. This got me wondering, do tarantulas naturally make any kind of audible sound? I feel like I’ve heard my tarantulas eating or making some sort of sound at times. Let me know if you’ve experienced the same thing or if you have any theories.

 

[Rs50matt]

you can often hear them climbing. Or flipping waterdishes around but in terms of natural noise some species do stridulate. It’s like a hissing noise when they rub their chelicerae together.

 

[m0lsx]

Yes they can make a hissing noise, correctly called stridulation. This sound is made by rubbing their legs together. Australia has the Selenocosmia cressapies, the barking, or whistling spider & the Theraphosa blondi, Goliath Birdeater can also do it & I think there a couple of others too.

My large blondi can make a noise that can be heard from a few feet away. But my cressapies are both slings.

 

[plessey]

You can see close ups of the modified setae that produce the hissing sound here - https://tarantulaforum.com/threads/the-bits-that-hiss.326/
This is probably worth a look as well - https://tarantulaforum.com/threads/...to-tarantula-anatomy-and-taxonomic-terms.389/

 

[menavodi]

If you have more than one like that it can sound like an orchestra at night!

 

[Frogdaddy]

If you're really really quiet........and you listen really really close......late late at night......you can hear them fart.