Nope. No. Noooooooooooo.
A researcher witnessed boas in Cuba hanging from the ceiling of a cave to snag flying bats out of the air. That’s terrifying enough.
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But he also saw them form a wall of snakes so the bats couldn’t escape without getting within striking distance of a hanging boa.
So yeah, just a group of snakes hunting together in a pack, nothing scary about that. (The Cuban boa, by the way, averages anywhere from eight to nearly 10 feet long.)
The three snakes observed didn’t always hunt together, according to the study, published recently in Animal Behavior and Cognition. But when they did, they almost always caught a bat — unlike when they hunted alone, when they’d leave hungry two-thirds of the time. Teamwork, yay! Read more…
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