Caudal Luring

This is an interesting behavior used by snakes to attract prey items by wagging their tails like a worms. The funny thing is, on this occassion she never struck the f/t fuzzy nor did she eat. Go figure?

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Caudal
• luring
• Bitis
• Horned
• Puff
• Adder

[akula06]

do you think it had to do with the heat detection? did your snake maybe not sense the prey as prey? i don't know too much about snakes, nor do i have one, but that's really weird.

[viperkeeper]

No, These are "pitless" vipers with no facial heat sensors. What triggered this behavior was sight, smell, & vibration.

[rebeloj]

It's quite possible that the adder performs caudal luring out of instinct and not necessarily because it needs to feed or even desires to. A green tree python will perform caudal luring even when it has a full belly. Sometimes they will lure and refuse prey offered. I would suppose that many animals who use this method do it as a habit as opposed to a calculated tactic as needed.

[viperkeeper]

Is this (NRI)if so, this is your baby I got from you.

[bloodshot16]

cool camoufalge. you can hardly see its head. and also, vwery clever (i have watched all the luring vid things(i think)) and iv seen that almost all of the are hiding by a plant or somthing. very clever.