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Snake Ability to hide in sand.
Sidewinders are a species of rattlesnake. While they are venomous pitvipers, they are shy and mostly nocturnal, resulting in relatively few bites to humans. They feed almost exclusively on rodents and lizards. At night, they roam relatively long distances, smelling the air and substrate for prey. During the day, they use a specialized wiggling motion to bury their bodies in loose sand, always in the shade of a bush to protect from intense daytime temperatures. In this semi-buried coil, with their heads right at the surface, they will lie and wait for prey that approaches too closely. The bite quickly paralyzes and kills the prey. After swallowing prey, the snakes descend into burrows formed by other animals to digest their meals. In addition to their characteristic and well-studied sidewinding behavior, sidewinders are capable of other, more traditional forms of snake locomotion, but only rarely use them. The sidewinding gait aids with movement across shifting sands, as well as other surfaces, including hardpan desert soil and roadways.