Rain-Collecting Rattlesnakes Give New Meaning to ‘Thirst Trap’

Rain-Collecting Rattlesnakes Give New Meaning to ‘Thirst Trap’

You are in a desert and dying of thirst. All of a sudden, storm clouds appear overhead, and the sky starts to spit tiny drops of liquid. How would you quickly make the most of the potentially lifesaving precipitation? One more thing, you don’t have any hands. Prairie rattlesnakes have evolved an easy solution to this problem. They simply coil up and turn themselves into rain-collecting pancakes. “It is a behavior that is seen in several differen…

Rain-Collecting Rattlesnakes Give New Meaning to ‘Thirst Trap’ - Overpasses For America

You are in a desert and dying of thirst. All of a sudden, storm clouds appear overhead, and the sky starts to spit tiny drops of liquid. How would you quickly make the most of the potentially lifesaving precipitation? One more thing, you don’t have any hands. Prairie rattlesnakes have evolved an easy solution to this problem. They simply coil up and turn themselves into rain-collecting pancakes. “It is a behavior that is seen in several differen…