in thailand the well-known wildlife youtuber jocho sippawat found a new genus of tarantula and collaborated with scientists to describe the species, taksinus bambus, nicknamed 'bambootula' | its scientific name honours the thai king taksin the great (1734-1782) | the tarantula lives inside bamboo stalks and is the first known species found on only one bamboo species | it crawls through holes made by other animals and insects or through natural cracks in the bamboo | photo: jocho sippawat