Message from @Osiris
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I think of boomslangs, they're green because they live in trees.
Seasnakes, yellow because of coral.
think of cottonmouths, black bc they live in swamps
they have crazy good camo
Plus I'm not sure any snakes are actually venemous to eat.
The venom is in the fangs.
I'm sure some are, but not most.
Taipan
perfectly coloured for the desert
Generally only prey animals use bright coloration as a deterrent because being brightly colored and being an ambush predators would never be naturally selected.
Predators are just not bizarrely colored.
Cheetahs don't ambush and they still have camo.
they stalk
But the hunt is running. They don't ambush.
they stalk as close as possible before running
You don't do a sing and dance even if you want to run something down.
They aren't ambush predators.
thats an ambush of sorts
@εïз irma εïз have you ever seen videos about the ambush theory?
Cheetahs will ambush you
Yes, why would they not?
The hunt is the running, not the ambush.
They are not ambush predators.
All of the energy spent is spent on the running.
Again, why would they not?
You don't do a sing and dance.
yes
yeah
i think stalking up close and suddenly running out of bushes at your prey counts as an ambush of sorts
"Pursuit predation is an alternate predation strategy to ambush predation. While pursuit predators use a detection and pursuit phase in order to obtain prey, ambush predators use stealth to capture prey. Strength and speed are important to pursuit predators, whereas ambush predators ignore these in favor of surprise from a typically concealed location."
"a surprise attack by people lying in wait in a concealed position."
They are pursuit predators. Every pursuit predator relies on stealth.
they are not an ambush predator but they do ambush prey
Except every ambush fails because the ambush isn't what kills the prey.
But yes they ambush.
CollegeHumor is painfully unfunny.
They consistently release disappointing videos that I might have found funny when I was 12.
Isn't Adam Ruins Everything CollegeHumor?
Most unfunny liberal shill piece of shit ever.
I hated him even before I found out he was a liberal shill.