Your snake eats its prey backwards?! What a dummy!

While our BPs are a couple eggs short of a dozen, this guy tricks fish into swimming into his mouth! Ch ch ch check it out.

http://www.livescience.com/common/me..._090619_snakes

That was a pretty interesting video, but I still did not see how the snake body fakes the fish. It seems to me that the snake just went right after the fish, and the fish just so happened to turn towards the snake’s mouth, as opposed to opposite the snake’s mouth. I'm probably just missing it. It is still pretty early. lol

I found a link from the site you posted for another video that I found pretty interesting about how snakes slither. Here it is: http://www.livescience.com/common/me...akes#playerTop

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Originally Posted by Wh00h0069

That was a pretty interesting video, but I still did not see how the snake body fakes the fish. It seems to me that the snake just went right after the fish, and the fish just so happened to turn towards the snake’s mouth, as opposed to opposite the snake’s mouth. I'm probably just missing it. It is still pretty early. lol

I found a link from the site you posted for another video that I found pretty interesting about how snakes slither. Here it is: http://www.livescience.com/common/me...akes#playerTop

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I actually found that link from an article about fish and their inner ears, which help them swim right side up. The ears also help the fish detect movement, and when they detect movement they swim away because they get scared. That snake makes a perfect J, and lays there motionless until a fish approaches, and then the snake does that little body flicker to trigger the fish's fear response. The fish being scared pulls a 180 but the snake's mouth is already there. Neat, huh?

Dejavu!

http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=95284

The body fake is real easy to see when they slow it down.

That is one incredible snake!
Very cool video, thanks for sharing!