The complexity of natural environments is an important component of animal behavior, and
laboratory environments often cannot reproduce that complexity. Strike‐induced …

Bushmasters (Lachesis muta) at Dallas Zoo demonstrated strike-induced chemosensory
searching (SICS) and trail-following when feeding on relatively large prey (> 25% of snake …

Predators demonstrate context-dependent foraging behaviors to dynamically and
successfully track prey and can use multiple cues in this process. In squamate reptiles …

Abstract Six northern Pacific rattlesnakes (Crotalus viridis oreganus) rescued from
substandard husbandry conditions were shipped from Woodland Park Zoological Gardens …

Rattlesnake predatory behavior is defined by a strike and then release of rodent prey.
Poststrike, the released envenomated prey dashes off and dies. Therefore, the snake must …

In a laboratory experiment, black rat snakes, Elaphe o. obsoleta, increased rates of tongue
flicking following ingestion of prey. This post-prandial tongue-flick increase, in combination …

Rattlesnakes typically strike and release adult rodent prey. Striking is followed by a
sustained, high rate of tongue flicking that guides the snake to the envenomated, dead prey …

A thorough understanding of communication requires an evaluation of both the signaler and
receiver. Most analyses of prey–predator communication are incomplete because they …

Research on predator–prey interactions often focuses largely on prey behaviour, treating
predators as static danger, rather than as active behavioural participants that can respond …

Rattlesnakes (Crotalus unicolor, C vegrandis) and Russell's vipers (Vipera russelli) at San
Diego Zoo exhibited sustained high rates of tongue flicking after striking mice (Mus …