Burmese Vine Snakes Feeding at the California Academy of Sciences
23.03.10
"Every time the food in the California Academy of Sciences vineyard 'snake, a flicker and you may miss the action. These pencil thin snake hunting fish swimming in the unrealizable below, striking at lightning speed. Recently, we captured a video of feeding (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1R6TIocCpY), and I thought you might want to share with readers of your blog. A tree-eating (eating and tree-house) snake is extremely rare and the Academy was the first aquarium in the world to see this case through our ongoing research on reptiles and amphibians in Myanmar.A contingent of researchers from the Academy of Myanmar justified back in November, and prepare to go again in April 2010 - This exceeded the Tanintharyi Division. Here is some more background on the research and how we came to have this unique display:
Myanmar and its neighbors in Southeast Asia have been designated as one of 34 hot spots of biodiversity. As such, the country has an irresistible attraction on the scientific academy.Over the past 13 years and 24 expeditions to Myanmar (the art of what has just returned in November 2009), researchers from the Academy of Sciences of California have discovered and described 23 new species of reptiles and amphibians with 50 more awaiting the official report. As data that conservation efforts help, sometimes scientists to return with more surprises.During a search of 2000 the team has gathered a group of Burmese Vine Snake (fronticincta Ahaetulla) - pencil-thin tree snakes at home that mimic the vines - and brought them back to the Steinhart Aquarium at the Academy with the objective of the display to the public.
Source: ScienceBlogs (blog)