Snakes that look like dry leaves and twigs: Nature’s most convincing disguise artists
The smallest of India’s Big Four is, in some ways, the hardest to spot. Its mottled brown and grey patterning, with broken markings across its back, blends into gravelly deserts, thorn scrub, and rocky, dry soils across large parts of India’s drier regions. It has a peculiar backup defence too: rubbing its rough, saw-like side…