The Adder that Tells Time
On today’s Creation Moments Minute, we look at the floodplain death adder of Australia and how it can actually tell time!
The marbled frog has a defense that could get the death adder into trouble. It secretes an incredibly sticky mucus. If the adder gets some of this on himself, dirt, leaves and even sticks will begin to stick to him. So when the adder strikes a marbled frog, he immediately drops the frog and waits. Studies show that two thirds of the stickiness of the mucus has degenerated by ten minutes after the frog dies. And that's how long the adder waits before he consumes the frog unharmed.
Researchers debate whether the adder's strategy of waiting ten minutes is instinctual or a learned behavior. Biblical creationists believe, of course, that the floodplain death adder was designed by its Creator to eat at just the right time.
For Creation Moments Minute, I’m Darren Marlar.
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Notes: Science News, 10/12/07, p. 227, S. Milius, "Eat a Killer."
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