* Agatha, the zoo's Mexican red knee tarantula, is probably 25 to 30 years old. Zoo-keepers think she was donated by a woman whose son went away to college and didn't want to bring his pet tarantula ...

Pet tarantulas are nothing like their B-movie counterparts: Their bites are rarely fatal; they're generally more afraid of you than you are of them; and they certainly aren't the size of three-story ...