Evasion

Biology

Snake’s Secret Language of UV Rays: Predator Evasion and Camouflage Hidden World

Visible (color) and UV (grayscale) photographs of three pit viper species with wide range of UV reflectance. From top to bottom, the species are the prairie rattlesnake, the western diamondback rattlesnake, and the two-stripe forest pit viper (the green one). All of these snakes are closely related species, but exhibit a wide range of UV reflectance. The white circles in…