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It's the worst nightmare of anyone who suffers from ophidiophobia. According to a new study, snakes are not the solitary hunters and eaters we perceive them to be. In fact, some of the slithery reptiles coordinate their missions to increase their success rate.
For the study, Vladimir Dinets, a research assistant professor of psychology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, observed the Cuban boa — the island nation's largest native terrestrial predator — hunting for food in bat caves.
Source: Time
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 28 2017, @07:31AM
2 snakes zero in on the same prey animal.
One starts eating it from 1 end and the other starts at the other end.
When they meet in the middle, neither being able to bite the prey animal in 2, the bigger of the 2 snakes proceeds to eat the other snake.
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