Sentences with phrase «puff adders»
«Puff adders, the ultimate ambush predator: One of Africa's most venomous and abundant snake species hides from predator and prey by camouflaging smell.»
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A team led by Wits post-graduate student Ashadee Kay - Miller investigated this question by training a team of dogs, and meerkats — from the Monte Casino Bird Gardens — to scent - match and test if they could detect the scent of puff adders.
This behavior could make puff adders vulnerable to predation,» says Professor Graham Alexander, who heads the Alexander Herp Laboratory at Wits.
Research done by researchers from the Wits School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, partly done at the Monte Casino Bird Gardens in Johannesburg, has shown that puff adders not only camouflage themselves with their highly evolved visual camouflage, but they are also difficult to find by smell.
«Puff adders hunt by ambushing their prey, and can lie motionless for weeks at a single location waiting for prey to pass.
Of the 42 known predators of puff adders, 15, including dogs and meerkats, rely primarily on their keen sense of smell to locate their prey.
«We asked the meerkats and dogs to scent - match scent samples collected from puff adders and other snake species.
During an intensive, three - year telemetry project that involved radio - tracking of 30 puff adders, three lines of evidence lead Alexander to conclude that puff adders must also possess a form of chemical camouflage.
As an experiment, he placed his face up against the puff adder enclosure at the London Zoo and tried to keep himself from flinching when the snake struck the plate glass.
Sgt. Rick Torres of Missing Persons adds his considerable expertise, but it's Chet's fearless nose for clues that leads them on a strange odyssey that becomes downright hairy after Uri's found dead in the desert from the bite of an illegal African puff adder.