Kings of camouflage

rofessor Graham Alexander and his team from the Alexander Herp Lab at the University of Witwatersrand conducted pioneering research on Puff Adders in the Dinokeng Game Reserve, just north of Pretoria. Several individual snakes were fitted with radio transmitters and tracked for several years. The most obvious conclusion was that most of these snakes spend most of their lives in camouflage, often hiding under a small shrub for several weeks at a time. They are not difficult to find when hiding in grass or plant debris – it is, in fact, close