A Cuban researcher has published an article on how some snakes hunt cooperatively.
I was watching a show on PBS (probably in the Nature series) that showed hundreds of snakes hunting on a beach for (I think) lizards that just hatched and had to get to the safety of the rocks.
Absolutely horrific! :eek:
It was worse than the CGI on Snakes On A Plane. How they get some of that footage is beyond imagination.
Are you maybe thinking of the racer snakes hunting the baby iguanas on Planet Earth II? Some of her best TV I’ve ever seen and great use of music too…
That one had me yelling “ruuuuuunnnnnn!!” to the baby iguana! That has to be one of the most amazing wildlife videos I’ve ever seen.
Don’t miss the part where these boas hang from the ceiling, in order to catch bats. Close your eyes and envision that one.
In this case, I wonder how much it is “cooperation” and how much just opportunism. After all, it’s not like those snakes on the beach can share their prey, a single iguana that happened to get unlucky.
Yeah, that’s the part that made me run screaming from the room!:eek:
The original Planet Earth series featured sea snakes hunting apparently cooperatively.
Ain’t nobody got time fo dat!
Cool!
signed, the resident crazy snake lady
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
(Also, what’s up with horrible things hunting bats in caves?)
That’s one bad-ass iguana. I thought for sure he was a goner.
The article on the bat hunting snakes mentions that. Snakes who were hunting in proximity to each other were more likely to make kills, and to do it more quickly. Not just because they had a better location, but because they were hunting near each other