{"id":37476,"date":"2020-09-16T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cupblog.bluefusesystems.com\/?p=37476"},"modified":"2020-09-16T10:54:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T09:54:48","slug":"watch-how-do-snakes-catch-their-prey-underwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/2020\/09\/16\/watch-how-do-snakes-catch-their-prey-underwater\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: How Do Snakes Catch Their Prey Underwater?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div>\n<p>When catching prey underwater snakes use two main techniques: the frontal strike and the lateral strike. By studying real snakes in the lab at ESPCI\/MNHN, Marion Segall was able to recreate the setup using a 3D-printed snake head and laser visualisation techniques, which allowed for the forces involved in each strike to be measured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aijOVMEnsqM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Research by Marion Segall at ESPCI\/MNHN. Interview with University of Oxford Mathematician Dr Tom Crawford. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This video is part of a collaboration between FYFD and the Journal of Fluid Mechanics featuring a series of interviews with researchers from the APS DFD 2017 conference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sponsored by FYFD, the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, and the UK Fluids Network. Produced by Tom Crawford and Nicole Sharp with assistance from A.J. Fillo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more maths related fun check out <a href=\"https:\/\/tomrocksmaths.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tom&#8217;s website.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When catching prey underwater snakes use two main techniques: the frontal strike and the lateral strike. By studying real snakes in the lab at ESPCI\/MNHN, Marion Segall was able to recreate the setup using a 3D-printed snake head and laser visualisation techniques, which allowed for the forces involved in each strike to be measured. Research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":800,"featured_media":37479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2253],"tags":[4016,1137,347,4018,346,349,4129],"coauthors":[4015],"class_list":["post-37476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mathematics","tag-aps-dfd","tag-fluid-dynamics","tag-fluid-mechanics","tag-fyfd","tag-jfm","tag-journal-of-fluid-mechanics","tag-uk-fluids-network"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/800"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37476"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=37476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}