The video i found of a cougar trying to have a bear cub for lunch was extremely well done and very interesting. I am not sure how they were able to film this. Please watch, you will enjoy this. PS It does have a happy ending.
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The original hunters! How did they do it? Take a look back in time before the gun or bow when the outcome of the hunt was determined by the stamina and skill of the hunter. This is a very interesting video to watch. They say this is one of the best hunting videos made.
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Night Vision: How Snakes Get A Clear Picture of Prey
Night vision devices detect infrared light. It turns out so do some snakes!
Two groups of snakes, pit vipers and boids (a family that includes boa constrictors) sport a pit organ on either side of their heads. Stretched across each pencil-eraser-size cavity is a membrane that can detect infrared light—which is heat—emitted by nearby prey. Scientists have known that pit vipers utilize these organs similar to the way a pinhole camera works.
Without a trip to an eye doctor, some snakes have developed their own vision-correcting devices. Scientists have discovered how pit vipers can turn blurry blobs into useful images with striking clarity.
Turns out it’s all in their tiny minds.
The “pithole” acts like a lens, forcing light from the source to form a tiny point on the membrane—the camera’s film. By focusing the light to such a tiny point, pinhole cameras can produce crisp images.
“So to get a clear image you would need a pinhole camera with a really small hole,” explained Leo van Hemmen, a physicist at the Technical University of Munich in Germany.
But an aperture so tiny would never let in enough infrared waves, which have a much lower frequency than visible light, to stimulate the membrane. The tiny aperture “means a small amount of energy per second, far too small to excite even sensitive [infrared] detectors in the pit membrane,” van Hemmen explained.
The pit openings of the snake are too large, therefore, to produce crisp images.
Using a computer model, van Hemmen’s team found that some snakes rely on a network of neurons in their brains to bring a blurry image into view. The brain network serves effectively as corrective lenses, the study indicates.
The image shows a figure as captured by a snake’s pit organ. When Sichert and colleagues applied their algorithm (similar to calculations in a snake’s brain), they reconstructed the image of a rabbit at right. (The illustration is based on a photo and does not correspond to a realistic thermal profile.) Image credit: Sichert, Andreas, et al.
The model showed that an infrared signal from each of the membrane’s heat receptors triggers a neuron to fire. This firing rate varies with respect to input from the other receptors. By fine-tuning how the approximately 2,000 heat receptors interact, van Hemmen’s team created strike-worthy images. [Please See Example].
Sharp images are crucial for a hungry snake “if it wants to hit a point source, say, a small mouse at a distance of 1 meter [3 feet],” van Hemmen told LiveScience.
None of this is overly complex, either. Snakes have small brains, so the researchers kept their computer model simple, concluding that “even a crude network dramatically improves infrared imaging.”