The Bristol Natural History Museum exhibited a live tuatara between 1911 and 1925. (Two specimens were acquired in 1911 but one didn't live long.)
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What physiological adaptation allows a particular species of False Coral Snake to have a unique item in its diet?
Details of the adaptation not required, by the way!
Is it Atractus elaps? This snake eats giant earthworms by tearing off bits at a time rather than eating them whole.
Not what I was thinking of, and I feel sure that there will be other predators of giant earthworms. For the answer, this snake is the only predator on this dietary item ( although it almost certainly has a wider diet than this particular specialisation).
One final clue; the prey item concerned is well known in captivity.
We seem to have ground to a halt here, so, Dassie Rat, you can set the next question. The species I found is the only species known to be immune to Batrachotoxin and therefore a predator of the Terrible Poison Dart Frog!
Has Phyllobates terribilis and its predator killed this thread?
Which reptile uses its skin to transmit vibrations to the cochlea in its inner ear?
I think this is the tuatara, again.
Sorry, Tetzoo Quizzer
The tuatara has an interesting hearing mechanism, but vibrations pass through the middle ear to the cochlea.
I'll check each suggestion, just in case there is more than one answer.
The tuatara has an interesting hearing mechanism, but vibrations pass through the middle ear to the cochlea.
I'll check each suggestion, just in case there is more than one answer.
Amphisbaenians?
Can you be more specific, Tetzoo Quizzer?
I’ll try, with Bipes bipes
You're right about the genus Bipes, a genus of two-handed worm lizards. Well done,
It's your turn.
It's your turn.
What remarkable anatomical adaptation allows some Taiwanese snakes to feed on snails?
They have asymmetrical lower jaws, enabling them to pry the soft bodies of snails from their spiral shells. Pareas iwasakii has about 17.5 teeth in its left mandible and 25 teeth in its right mandible.
Thanks, Tetzoo Quizzer. I didn't know that before today.
Thanks, Tetzoo Quizzer. I didn't know that before today.
I learnt it in a Tetrapods Zoology quiz, appropriately enough! Over to you again...
I didn't know that snail-eating snakes had 4 legs!
Which reptiles have light-detecting eye spots?
Which reptiles have light-detecting eye spots?
Anything with a pineal eye, such as the Madagascan Three-eyed Lizard...