COLOR CHANGING SNAKE

You might be familiar with people cursing others as a"chameleon",for acting for the time,pretending, to escape at the moment.Even snakes have this habit to escape from enemies.
A newfound species of poisonous snake have developed an unusual way to keep enemies by spontaneously changing its skin color.

The iridescent serpent, discovered in the Indonesian section of the island of Borneo of the international conservation organization WWF announced today. A WWF team found the snake during a 2004 survey of the island's reptile diversity.
"I put the reddish-brown snake in a dark bucket," Mark Auleya, a German reptile expert. "When I retrieved it a few minutes later, it is entirely white."
Auleya found the 0.5-meter-long snake in wetlands and swamps near the River in Kerihun National Park. The scientists believe ,it survives only in the wet areas.
"Its ability to change color has kept it hidden from science until now. I guess it just picked the wrong color that day",said the scientist.
A handful of other reptiles are known to be able to rapidly change their pigmentation chameleon color change, and the trait is a defense mechanism in some snakes. The researchers don't know how or why the new snake species makes the change, but they speculate it could be a warning behavior.
If they have found the reason behind the color change,i will try to use it to escape from my teachers.