Emanuele Biggi / Peruvian Tarantula (Pamphobeteus sp.) young commonully feeding on a treefrog (Scinax ictericus) left to them by their mother, while a Humming Frog (Chiasmocleis royi) passes by unharmed, Los Amigos Bi...

Emanuele Biggi / Peruvian Tarantula (Pamphobeteus sp.) adult, walking over Humming Frog (Chiasmocleis royi) without preying on it. Los Amigos Biological Station, Madre de Dios, Amazonia, Peru. These species have a com...

Emanuele Biggi / Peruvian Tarantula (Pamphobeteus sp.) adult, walking over Humming Frog (Chiasmocleis royi) without preying on it. Los Amigos Biological Station, Madre de Dios, Amazonia, Peru. These species have a com...

Alex Hyde / Chicken Spider (Pamphobeteus sp.), a huge tarantula discovered next to it's burrow at night in dense tropcial rainforest. Manu Biosphere Reserve, lowland Amazon rainforest, Peru. November.

Paul Bertner / Tarantula (Pamphobeteus sp) juvenile, Leticia, Brazil

Pete Oxford / Tarantula (Pamphobeteus sp), Mashpi Rainforest Biodiversity Reserve, Pichincha, Ecuador

Michael D. Kern / Kaleidoscope pattern formed from picture of Brazilian Pinkbloom tarantula (Pamphobeteus platyomma). See 1499518 for original. EMBARGOED FOR NAT GEO UNTIL the end of 2015

Michael D. Kern / Brazilian pinkbloom tarantula (Pamphobeteus platyomma) reflected on surface, captive occurs in Brazil.

Michael D. Kern / Brazilian pink tarantula (Pamphobeteus platyomma), captive, from South America

Konrad Wothe / Tarantula (Pamphobeteus antinous) Tambopata National Reserve, Peru, South America.

Konrad Wothe / Tarantula (Pamphobeteus antinous) at hole, Tambopata National Reserve, Peru, South America.

Michael D. Kern / Brazilian Pinkbloom (Pamphobeteus sp 'platyomma') undescribed species, captive from Brazil