Brad places
a tarantula or scorpion in his mouth and blows soap bubbles at the
same time! During a recent interview about this dangerous act, he
said:
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| "Tarantulas
and to some degree scorpions don't like to be blown on. They have
specialized hairs. Some of the tarantulas hairs are connected
to nerve endings. Touch is a tarantulas main sense, and their
sight is very poor. In the wild a touch or air disturbance is
a danger signal and causes a fight or flight response. Other hairs
on the tarantula are barbed for defense. These barbed hairs are
very light and brittle so they break off easily and many tarantulas
will facilitate this by scuffing off the hairs with their back
legs when threatened. This is why so many tarantulas have a bald
spot on their abdomen. The hair will float and many people experience
severe inching if they make contact with the skin. But even more
significant is that these itching hairs, (or urticating hairs
as they are called), are very irritating to mucus membranes. Getting
the urticating hairs in your eyes, breathing them into your nose
or lungs, or getting them in your mouth is definitely not desirable.
If a tarantula gets near your face it can feel threatened and
kick hair or bite! Some people claim that the hair is worse than
the bite! So the worst thing you could do is put a spider in your
mouth and blow on it. I prove I am blowing by blowing bubbles
while the tarantula or scorpion in my mouth. I simply put the
tarantula in my mouth so that it rests on my tongue, then I take
a small bottle of bubble solution (he kind kids use) remove the
wand from the bottle, dip it and start blowing. A little prayer
at this point may also be a good idea, because although tarantulas
are simple minded creatures they are not always predictable. On
an upcoming episode of Guinness I turned the tarantula upside
down and used a nail file to expose the fangs for the camera."
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