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Iranian Spider-Tailed Viper

Posted on February 25, 2020February 26, 2020 by Sam Kornstein in General, Nature, Science
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I recently came across this great example of evolutionary mimicry, where this viper has a tail that it can make to look like a walking spider. It moves it back and forth to trick birds into thinking there’s a spider to eat, and then you can imagine what happens next:

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