Tracking Tarantulas and Temperature Impacts on Biomechanical Traits

The chapter explores the use of data loggers to monitor wild tarantulas for conservation efforts, highlighting the potential benefits in understanding their behavior. It also delves into the effects of temperature variations on rattlesnakes and kangaroo rats, discussing a hypothesis on predator-prey interactions disrupted by temperature changes. The researchers emphasize the importance of lab studies to ensure sensors do not affect tarantula behavior and detail an agent-based modeling approach to study predator-prey interactions in a natural setting.