Viper striking at its prey captured for first time in wild
In a first, a UC Riverside biologist named Timothy Higham has captured a high-speed video (500 frames per second) of a viper striking its prey in the wild. Scientists have quantified the strikes of the rattlesnake preying on a kangaroo rat and studied the dynamics of predator-prey interactions. This could help understand the evolutionary adaptations in both predators and prey.