Resumen de Natural-born killer.
The article discusses the tentacled snake, Erpeton tentaculatus, which is a fully aquatic reptile native to Thailand, Cambodia and South Vietnam. The author, who is a biologist, notes his interest in the tentacled snake, which is named for the distinctive appendages that project from the sides of its snout, while visiting the National Zoo in Washington, D. C. Topics include an overview of the author's research testing the function of the snake's tentacles, the snake's various hunting strategies that it deploys from birth, and a diagram illustrating how E. tentaculatus hunts fish, which includes information on how the snake's feint strategy exploits the fish's neural circuitry that helps the fish avoid predation. INSET: Startle and Strike.
