Videoradiographic analyses were made of hissing in puff adders (Bitis arietans). During the hiss the larynx remains relatively stationary immediately adjacent to the internal nares. The exhalatory ...

The puff adder is one of the deadliest snakes in Africa, and also an expert at camouflage. Can you spot the puff adder in the accompanying image, or in the footage before the narrator zooms in?

The puff adder is one of the deadliest snakes in Africa, and also an expert at camouflage. Can you spot the puff adder in the accompanying image, or in the footage before the narrator zooms in?

Pictured in the photos above, an eastern hognose snake curls up in East Bay Township this week. Though the snake’s defensive behavior of flattening its neck and body and loud hissing seem threatening ...

Puff Adders are the ultimate ambush predator. This African viper species, Bitis arietans, relies on stealth, both to find its prey and to hide from their predators. And, while they have always been ...

Xavier Glaudas was watching a video of one of the world's deadliest snakes when something made him pause and rewind. “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” he says. On the film, a puff adder (Bitis ...

Puff adders are so difficult to detect by scent that trained snake-finding dogs can walk over a live adder without noticing. “The puff adders wouldn’t react, and the dogs would be sniffing on the ...

Summer in South Africa isn’t just for sunbathers—turns out, it’s also prime time for snakes to hit the beach! At Langebaan Lagoon, a puff adder, which is considered one of the fastest strikers in the ...

POLOKWANE – The DA in Polokwane has written to the municipal manager Thuso Nemagumoni seeking the waste and environment department to urgently attend to the grass cutting and pest control management ...

There are a lot of animals that blend in visually with their environment; there are relatively few that can mask their smell. One exception is the puff adder. Recent research shows that this venomous ...

A CURIOUS fact has been lately brought to my notice by a friend of mine, Mr. H. M. Oakley, in connection with the Dasypeltis scaber, Linn., or egg-eating snake—the “Eijer eter” of the Dutch ...

Enter the puff adder (Bitis arietans) — nature’s unassuming, cold-blooded rodent regulator. A new study by Professor Graham Alexander at the University of the Witwatersrand has revealed just how ...