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">By moving a point midway down its body first, the tentacled water snake causes its prey to swim toward the snake’s mouth.“The snake has found a way to use the fish’s escape reflex to its advantage.”
VANDERBILT (US)—The tentacled water snake from southeast Asia has found a way to startle its prey so that the fish turn toward the snake’s head to flee instead of turning away. The fish’s reaction is so predictable that the snake aims its strike at the position where the fish’s head will be instead of tracking its actual movement. Continue…
