The snake that tricks fish into swimming straight into its mouth: How could a snake respond so effectively to the movement of prey that had not yet happened?
Tentacled snake (Image: https://x.com/DenverZoo/) The fish makes the move it was built to make: escape. In a flash, its body bends into a C-shape and it darts away from danger. Except this time, the escape takes it straight towards the predator’s jaws.The hunter is the tentacled snake (Erpeton tentaculatum), an aquatic snake with two small, […]
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