The strange creature immediately caused Lujan Eroles, a 46-year-old woman from the Argentine town of Santa Fe, to scream. Her neighbors came over right away to see what had occurred.
It is unlike anything I have ever seen. His eyes were peculiar, but it appeared to be a snake. “I thought it might be toxic,” she remarked.
Eroles captured a video of a creature that resembles a snake in color, while only being 10 centimeters in length. The first theories on the species he belongs to surfaced when she uploaded the video below to the Internet.
It would therefore be the caterpillar of a rare Central American species of moth. Because it lacks defense mechanisms, the caterpillar impersonates a snake to ward off predators:
