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“Like many other apparently simple things in biology, there is a lot of complexity to caudal luring that has barely been explored,” Schwenk says. “Much of this has been considered in a piecemeal fashion, but a thorough review and synthesis ... has not been attempted.”
“I'm sure it's worth a lot of money,” Anderson says. “You can pay thousands of dollars just for odd mutations of various snakes … There's people who just collect venomous snakes because they like to live dangerously, I guess. I'm sure there's a demand out there.”Spider-tailed vipers may be the flashiest caudal lurers, but the behavior is so common it’s presumed other snakes probably use it, too — it just hasn’t been recorded yet.
For two years, they used fixed cameras to film the snakes, ending up with 193 continuous days of footage. They noticed snakes used their tails as lures, but the researchers observed that wasn't the only trick up their nonexistent sleeves. They were using their tongues, too. And they were using them for a totally different prey, suggesting they can tell their targets apart by species.
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