Caudal luring; flicking the tail around like this, is intriguing. It may be enticing to prey, but sometimes you hear it vibrating in dry leaves and it sounds like the rattle of a rattlesnake… this Bothrops alternatus is an unseen moment from #Deadly60 that never made it into the show! | Steve Backshall

Behold this seemingly harmless green worm! It wiggles, beckoning you to come closer. Wait a minute — this is no worm! This is actually the tail-end of an Endangered Mangshan mountain pitviper. Did it fool you? Exhibiting a behavior called "caudal luring," Mangshan mountain pitvipers use their tails to mimic worms, in hopes of luring a meal. "This behavior in Mangshan vipers is not observed very frequently, being that the species was described to science only 30 years ago and the entire wild popu

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