Gallery: There's a Tarantula Version of the Westminster Dog Show
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Best In Show and Best African Secotra Island Blue Baboon (*Monocentropus balfouri*)
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Best Asian Terrestrial *Haplocosmia himalayana*
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Runner up, Best Asian Arboreal *Cyriopagopus sp.*
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Runner up, Best Asian Arboreal *Cyriopagopus sp.*
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Runner up, Best New World Terrestrial Giant White Knee (*Acanthoscurria geniculata*)
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Runner up, Best African Greater Horned Baboon Tarantula (*Ceratogyrus brachycephalus*)
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Best New World Arboreal Panama Blonde (*Psalmopoeus pulcher*)
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Best Asian Arboreal Ivory Lowland Ornamental (*Poecilotheria subfusca* ‘highland form’)
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Best In Show and Best African Secotra Island Blue Baboon (*Monocentropus balfouri*)
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