Follow the path as it snakes its way along the shoulder of the hill high above the Gannel Burn, on the right side of the glen opposite Law Hill. |
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The bearded figure twists to face us as he frees himself from one of the snakes. |
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Some are like horses, others like monstrous turtles, many resemble wicked snakes, and the list continues. |
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Bites from snakes can also contain venom, causing the symptoms of diarrhoea and sickness. |
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The scales are shed individually, so crocodilians do not molt like snakes do. |
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Finally, today's snakes, lizards, turtles, the tuatara, and crocodiles do enjoy a surprisingly broad latitudinal distribution. |
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When we visited this centre I pointed out the possibility of dry bites by venomous snakes. |
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The swamps are infested with poisonous snakes and fearsome insects with bites so strong they will either kill a man or drive him mad. |
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The most important role played by the snake charmers is in treating people who have been bitten by snakes. |
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We gave no thought to snakes although any one of us could have been bitten at least a dozen times as we sauntered through the bramble. |
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They learned about the various types of snake, what snakes were sacred to which gods, and how to treat people who were bitten by snakes. |
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Both apparently got bitten by snakes while fleeing through the sand dunes at Pearly Beach last month, and died. |
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I was the kid in the neighborhood who caught black snakes and took them to school for show-and-tell. |
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Even lower species of life such as snakes give birth to hundreds of young at one time. |
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For added protection for the birds from snakes and other climbing predators, place a snake guard on the post just underneath the bird house. |
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Paleontologists behind some of these fossils believed they were the oldest snakes yet discovered and a missing link with mosasaurs. |
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Brown tree snakes crawling on electrical power lines cause short circuits and are responsible for frequent power outages on Guam. |
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Some snakes, such as pythons, retain tiny leg bones, which may be visible as minuscule claws at the base of the tail. |
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Thus, several kinds of king snakes mimic the venomous coral snake's distinctive pattern of alternating red, black, and yellow or white bands. |
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The ruse works so successfully that some 30 other non-venomous snakes have mimicked the coral snake and share similar color patterns. |
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Subjects covered included choosing a suitable pet and the best ways to handle and feed snakes and lizards. |
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Many birds migrate, and many of the world's frogs, lizards, and snakes lie low during cooler periods of the year. |
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It's frustrating enough to encounter a big setback, so why torment the kids with snakes. |
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These snakes are roughly cylindrical, and if their small forked tongues didn't flick in and out, it would be hard to tell one end from the other. |
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Join us each day for stories about serpents, from flying snakes to Vietnamese cobras and North American copperheads. |
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Reptiles are cold blooded scaly creatures like snakes, lizards, crocodiles and turtles, who are all descendants of the primitive reptile. |
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Ticks rank right up there with bats, snakes and spiders as creatures that elicit fear and disgust at the mere mention of their name. |
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My sister Jill was having nightmares about bugs and beasties and snakes on my behalf. |
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The Kreutlers bred boas, corn snakes, Madagascar lizards and bearded dragons. |
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Turtles, tortoises, iguanas, bearded dragon, a Mali uromastyx, and snakes alike had water changed. |
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It was just light enough to see, but not to read, the signs in the sand dunes that warn the unwary beachgoer of snakes. |
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However, melanism and amelanism are known to occur in many species of natricine snakes. |
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Meh, the snake show was way more exciting than the reptile exhibition, a display of motionless, sleeping snakes. |
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Commonly, these also had a snake nursery where snakes were bred for use for the healing ceremonies. |
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Some of the spirals found in Nature include seashells, animal horns, coiled snakes and creeping vines, among other things. |
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Most sea snakes bear their young live in the water, but the banded sea krait lays eggs on land, either on the sand or just under it. |
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Every sort of mask was laid out, kings, princesses, cows, snakes, skeletons, cats and even a lovely ballerina. |
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The invasive species kill birds, small marsupials, amphibians, lizards, and snakes. |
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Hawaiian ecologists have long scouted for invading brown tree snakes, which occasionally stow away on planes landing in Honolulu. |
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Another time he left the terrarium with five absolutely deadly snakes open, next time he got bitten from one. |
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The book is full of these sequences, with frogs, pinkies, mantids, tarantulas, snakes, and more. |
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Two autobiographical carvings depict his belief that a mambo had cursed him by placing snakes in his belly. |
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Vipers, cobras, mambas, coral snakes and kraits and a few other snakes have evolved venom as a way of capturing prey. |
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The mambas are relatives of the cobras and belong to the venomous group of snakes known as Elapids. |
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There are studies on the vasculature of the scaled integument of lizards and snakes. |
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Predators of talapoin monkeys include leopards, golden cats, genets, raptors, large snakes, and Nile monitors. |
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He had to take to the hills and it was from here that he blessed Ireland and all in it with two exceptions, snakes and the Red Bog. |
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The young snakes prey on recently hatched steelhead trout and chinook salmon and on the tadpoles of yellow-legged frogs. |
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He strolled from the hotel across a vacant field of cactus and sagebrush, shooting snakes and beer cans as he made his way. |
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A grove of crotons became a magical jungle where snakes and other exotic creatures lurked, waiting to pounce. |
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Evening entertainment included games of ludo, snakes and ladders and draughts. |
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Don't forget classic games such as snakes and ladders, ludo, Chinese chequers, chess and draughts. |
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Children had access to scrabble, Chess, snakes and ladders, ludo and mastermind. |
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Rubber boas are secretive, slow-moving, docile snakes, usually found under logs and rocks in either moist or dry forest habitats. |
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As she lived and worked in the rainforest of Ecuador, she had to look out for poisonous snakes, insects and plants. |
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His artsy-craftsy zoo has a wide range of snakes, alligators, canines, dinosaurs, kangaroos, horses, dolphins, apes, chimpanzees et al. |
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Small birds, lizards, snakes, toads, and frogs are a small part of their prey items. |
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Linneans are encouraged to take a deep breath, remember that these snakes are harmless and timid, and contact me right away. |
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The rising waters can also displace poisonous snakes and make mosquito populations explode. |
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Mopeds carrying live ducks, roadsides littered with dead snakes, a leopard, an elephant and a rhino were just some of the more unusual sights. |
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The only figure of real interest is the subcutaneous LD50 as few snakes can ever achieve anything other than that. |
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It's the time to reconnect with nature, when kids catch bugs and snakes, grandfathers go fishing and couples take a canoe down a lazy river. |
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Four dogs, a kitten and a collection of snakes and lizards were rescued unharmed. |
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It was like long snakes zigzaggedly going through a forest full of fireflies showing them direction. |
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They are also preyed upon by mammalian predators such as cats, and by snakes such as boas and anacondas. |
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While other snakes can grow longer, they cannot match the anaconda's length and bulk. |
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Scleroglossa is a diverse and speciose group including all remaining lizard families, plus snakes and amphisbaenians. |
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Other authors have used morphological evidence in support of a relationship of snakes to a clade comprising amphisbaenians and dibamids. |
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As frogs, toads, salamanders, and snakes emerge from hibernation, encourage them to stay around your garden and help control pests. |
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Gardener snakes, grass snakes, ground beetles, box turtles, salamanders, ducks, and larvae of lightning bugs all feed on snails. |
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The grasses who will grow tall as a woman in a few months, creating habitat for yellow jackets, snakes and such. |
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Mosquitoes, poisonous snakes and tropical diseases such as yellow fever and typhoid caused many to succumb. |
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For now, the alligators in the Florida Everglades are holding their ground against the invading snakes. |
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Bats, owls, grass snakes and lizards should be rehomed before developers can move on to a site in Pewsey, district council officers say. |
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Bare branches grow out of one end, while shoots sprout out from the other, smiling snakes wriggle around and a baby bird emerges from an egg. |
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Other animals include snakes, such as the cobra, king cobra, and banded krait and countless insects and spiders. |
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The toxins of certain snakes and of bacteria also block neuromuscular transmission and paralyse their victim. |
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There are lots of birds, chipmunks, red squirrels, snakes and there was even a tree frog at our site. |
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I got off on the wrong foot in that first scene that has snakes in the bed. |
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The snakes that evolved venom no longer had to rely solely on constriction or other ways of physically subduing their prey. |
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The snakes also twist while constricting, in order to break the backs of their unfortunate prey. |
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In more derived snakes, most of the occipital elements are fused, forming essentially the only akinetic structure in the skull. |
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They are home to many smaller wildlife like jackals, hares, snakes, wild boar, pangolin and countless species of birds. |
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Some pet keepers are bitten while handling their snakes in a drunken, drugged, tired, or emotional state, late at night. |
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They may be preyed upon by larger animals, such as large owls, coyotes, or large snakes, such as eastern massasauga rattlesnakes. |
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A new study of timber rattlesnakes in the eastern United States marks the first time kin recognition has been observed in snakes. |
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Clark says timber rattlesnakes and other pit vipers may be the most social of all snakes. |
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Both instances of predation by black rat snakes were correctly classified as snakes. |
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Randall and Matocq showed that gopher snakes respond to footdrumming of the banner-tailed kangaroo rat. |
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The two native Glass Lizards of Kerkyra occur often together with whip snakes all over the island. |
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The only snakes I have come across in any number are whip snakes in the long grass by the roads. |
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Whilst it can reach over a metre in length, most whip snakes are smaller than this. |
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Amphibians and reptiles include newts, green and Greek frogs, turtles, four-lined rat snake and Aesculapian snakes. |
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The garter snakes mentioned in the letter generally eat frogs, worms, mice and smaller snakes. |
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Along with the gusty winds, torrential rains and the punishing power shutdowns, it rained snakes of all sizes and colours on the city. |
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Jeff and Eric are available to catch snakes at anytime of the day or night, seven days week. |
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Many venomous snakes in Iran are being collected for the production of antivenin. |
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Crickets are eaten by small owls, birds, snakes, mice, frogs, raccoons, opossums and many other creatures. |
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Voles are an important source of food for many predators, including snakes, hawks, owls, coyotes, weasels, foxes, mink and badgers. |
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Many small creatures such as snakes, lizards, weasels and stoats would also live in the hills, and bats would have lived in cliff caves. |
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The marsh supports American toads, midland painted turtles, Blanding's turtles, snapping turtles, and Lake Erie water snakes. |
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Also known as wart snakes or elephant-trunk snakes, the file snakes have baggy skin that lies in loose folds. |
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The Asian wart snakes of India, south east Asia, New Guinea and Australia have scales that lie next to each other and each have a sharp ridge. |
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The nonpoisonous variety of snakes include the common blind snake, the Russell sand boa, the Indian python, and the Indian wart snake. |
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If they are the banded wart snakes they make good display snakes and require slightly brackish water. |
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He has worked on more than 300 Hollywood movies involving snakes, lizards, spiders, and other creepy crawlers. |
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When snakes flick their tongues in and out, they pick up chemical cues from the air, which they transfer to a sensory organ in the roof of the mouth. |
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Today a border fence snakes up the land that divides Naco, Ariz., from Naco, Mexico. |
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There was a brief attempt to train a beagle named Python Pete to track the snakes. |
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These birds of a small size actually live off water snakes, so wherever there are water snakes, you can always hear the chirping of these little birds. |
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He pulled a bag of lollies out from his bag, it was a red packet filled with mixed snakes, jelly babies, frogs and many other sweet treats to eat. |
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In the wild, snakes are as ubiquitous as fast-food joints in a city. |
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There are also reptiles, like adders or grass snakes, slow-worms and lizards that are prone to fire damage because they cannot get out quickly enough. |
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There were more stretches through wilderness and spotting shoals of fish, cormorants, cranes, owls, spoonbills, kingfishers, woodpeckers, and a few snakes. |
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People are bitten by exotic snakes while handling or feeding them, cleaning out their cages, milking them of their venoms, or attempting to steal them. |
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Black bears, grizzly bears, polar bears, wolverines, mountain lions, a number of snakes and even lynx, badgers and black flies might kill you in the wild in Canada. |
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Once enchanted, the victim will be fed on lizards, wood ants and snakes. |
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Before he knew it, he had more animals on his hands than his snakes could devour. |
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From discovering new slithering species to collecting deadly venom, real-world snake wranglers bring you face-to-fang with some of the most mesmerizing snakes on the planet. |
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Sylvester is a veteran snake wrangler and the owner of Reptile Rentals, a company that supplies snakes and other animals to the film and television industry. |
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There are snakes and alligators everywhere, and the more you see, the more you realise the city isn't going to be liveable for who knows how long. |
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In Paradise Valley we found such a place where we could exchange the unctuous reptiles of Hollywood for far less pretentious alligator lizards and gopher snakes. |
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In snakes and amphisbaenians M. iliocostalis has its origin from either a tendon or a tendonous sheet arising from the anteroventral half of M. longissimus dorsi. |
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They also endured first-hand experiences with green mamba snakes, grunting warthogs, laughing hyenas, and black centipedes which would fall dramatically into the bath. |
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Stainton has helmed Irwin's cable exploits for years, and he understands the inherent drama and suspense in diddling with deadly snakes and toothy reptiles. |
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The reptile population ranges from a variety of venomous and harmless snakes to the endangered blue-tongued lizard and the goanna, a monitor lizard that grows to 8 feet. |
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We have a vacant plot next to our house and since the grass has caught up to a 6 foot wall, we are experiencing housebreaking, snakes, leguaans and scorpions. |
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The Everglades, overrun with huge reptiles, is about to host its first-ever open season on snakes. |
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Primates, it seems, are evolutionarily prepared to fear, detect, and respond to snakes. |
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According to medieval hagiography, Patrick's powers also encompassed raising the dead, conjuring snow on a summer's day and, of course, ridding Ireland of snakes. |
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His photograms have reproduced water droplets, birds in flight, moving light and even a trail of snakes moving across light-sensitive paper, dusted with talcum powder. |
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The curtain's incised pattern of soft green, stemlike arabesques recalls 19 th-century wallpaper design and, at the same time, snakes or lizards curling into themselves. |
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Growing up in Kenya, my brother and I often shared the branches with a chameleon as we reached for the juicy, yellow loquats, keeping our eyes open for snakes. |
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Today, that destination is a world peopled with clowns, gymnasts, panthers, snakes, men and women, young and old, in brilliant reds and greens and luminous yellows. |
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Stanley Kubrick's sagacious adaptation of Anthony Burgess' controversial novel assaults the screen with snakes, Ludwig van, and more than a bit of the old ultra-violence. |
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Surely, though the best name of all is given to sansevieria hyacinthoides, which grows in a green gaggle of twisted leaves, standing erect like snakes. |
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Primitive humans would have needed to avoid certain species of animals, as we do now, such as venomous snakes, poisonous frogs, tarantulas and wolves. |
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She guides your hand to touch the scabby scar that snakes across her head. |
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Adaptable and resourceful, individual maned wolves range through enormous territories where they live off everything from rodents and birds to venomous snakes and berries. |
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The X-ray scope used to identify individual prey inside snakes also produced an image of the outline of a skink that indicated the presence or absence of a tail. |
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Since then, they have found homes for around 1,200 creatures ranging from dogs, cats, guinea pigs, chickens and geese to terrapins, snakes and iguanas. |
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The approach is illustrated with data from a predator-prey arms race between garter snakes and newts that operates through the interface of tetrodotoxin and resistance to it. |
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The Seine snakes down to the bottom right before curving back up. |
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However, in some areas, snakes such as the yellow-lipped sea krait, Laticauda colubrina, have been heavily exploited by the international leather industry. |
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The computer programs tell us all about snakes and lizards and birds and mammals, about atoms and planets and plants, but not dragons or basilisks or cyclopsi. |
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Ophidiophobes thinking of viewing the property will be reassured to learn that there have been no snakes on the premises for a number of years now. |
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When Yoo and Lee were arrested for the bombing and the snakes, Korean film employees staged protests demanding their release. |
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Inside the undulating serpentine shape of the snake body are shapes that resemble the decorative patterns often found on snakes to camouflage them. |
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After some time, the snakes were getting too close for comfort and a couple of the village men frightened them off using long sticks with red cloth tied at one end. |
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Because two days ago at the Crocodile Bank not far from Mahabalipuram, along with hundreds of fascinating crocs and tortoises and snakes, I saw this sign. |
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A buzzing whirr snakes around in the middle distance refusing to be pinned down by clipped beats that pierce the foreground like so many regimented arrows. |
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Today, he taps the native intelligence of the same tribal communities to find rare species of the shield-tailed snakes that live under the ground. |
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Only a few species of snakes, such as sandboas and shieldtail snakes, are capable of making their own burrows, but even they prefer existing burrows, when available. |
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The birdshot loads have already accounted for a respectable number of venomous Mississippi snakes and I even bagged a beaver with a well-placed charge of buckshot. |
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However, when lorries trundled past the snakes would be shaken off the branches and often smashed through the windscreens of cars because of their hard heads. |
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Two-headed snakes typically occur in the same way that Siamese twins do. |
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The end results were anything but pleasant for Niko who spent a week after the incident in the hospital ward sick with fever and poison from snakes bite. |
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Though I felt lucky to have blacksnakes around our barn and sheds to keep the mice in check, I just never could get as comfortable with any snakes as my younger son is. |
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Other notable snakes in Hinduism are Ananta, Vasuki, Taxak, Karkotaka and Pingala. |
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The jaws were furnished with hooks or hamated teeth, in the manner common to snakes. |
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Mr Khamis said rat snakes were often seen at Al Areen, mainly during the summer when they come out on warm days to soak up the heat of the sun. |
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These include river otter, raccoons, beavers, green frogs, and western ribbon snakes. |
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But studies translocating timber rattlesnakes and Aruba rattlesnakes found the snakes wandering broadly, with no sign they were heading homeward. |
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When such foods are insufficient, they prey on lizards, snakes, frogs, rarely toads and large insects as available. |
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Predators include humans, hawks, weasels, raccoons, foxes, domestic and feral cats, snakes, owls, and dogs. |
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First Creator created the lands to the south of the river with hills, valleys, trees, buffalo, pronghorn antelope and snakes. |
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I hated all creepy crawly things, whether bugs, spiders or snakes and had no desire to look down at the creeptacular scene below us. |
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Unnaturally high water levels soak sparrow nests, make eggs vulnerable to rice rats and snakes, or otherwise halt nesting. |
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It was depicted in art on the walls of tombs, and figured in funerary texts, as a protective symbol against snakes. |
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These included descriptions of sea monsters, including huge whales, sharks, sea snakes, giant squid and octopuses. |
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Some snakes have a venomous bite, which they use to kill their prey before eating it. |
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While the majority of snakes eat a variety of prey animals, there is some specialization by some species. |
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Most extant marine reptiles, except for some sea snakes, are oviparous and need to return to land to lay their eggs. |
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Reptiles which inhabit or frequent the sea include sea turtles, sea snakes, terrapins, the marine iguana, and the saltwater crocodile. |
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Such snakes can take the form of any living creature, but prefer human form. |
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This contains a toxin called bufagin and is enough to deter many predators although grass snakes seem to be unaffected by it. |
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Elsewhere in Europe, snakes were said to be repelled by ash leaves or a circle drawn by an ash branch. |
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As snakes do not appear in the art, it is impossible to say what cultural impact they had, if any. |
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There are a wealth of small animals such as lizards, snakes, tortoises and insects. |
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Turtles do not molt their skins all at once as snakes do, but continuously in small pieces. |
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Individual snakes may brumate in burrows, under rock piles, or inside fallen trees, or snakes may aggregate in large numbers at hibernacula. |
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Australia is home to many dangerous animals including some of the most venomous snakes in the world. |
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The birds like swans, peacocks, parrots and animals like snakes, lions, elephants and horses were also favorites when decorating a lamp. |
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There is a Hindu festival called Nag Panchami each year on which day snakes are venerated and prayed to. |
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There are examples of astrolabes with artistic pointers in the shape of balls, stars, snakes, hands, dogs' heads, and leaves, among others. |
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In regions where winters are colder than snakes can tolerate while remaining active, local species will brumate. |
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This environment also has the widest variety of wildlife, such as macaws, parrots, quetzals, hummingbirds, iguanas, and various kinds of snakes. |
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Eccentric flints show a great variety of forms, such as crescents, crosses, snakes, and scorpions. |
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The peninsula is also home to the eastern brown snake, one of the world's most venomous snakes. |
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Reptiles and amphibians live mostly in the Southern and Central Ural and are represented by the common viper, lizards and grass snakes. |
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The fire burns dry leaves, and chases away or kills any lurking venomous snakes, without harming the stalks and roots. |
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India is often called the land of snakes and is steeped in tradition regarding snakes. |
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There are also many snakes and lizards, over 500 bird species, and 131 fish species. |
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Baby brown snakes are dark grey or black, and have broad bands on the back of their heads and numerous reddy-brown spots on their bellies. |
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It seems strange that this hill should be associated with snakes, though adders are not uncommon in the Lake District. |
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The species is nonvenomous and more docile toward humans than most other snakes, two reasons for its one-time preferential status as a pet. |
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Not birds, you lamebrain, dey stole mongeese. Little animals from over in India, day kill da snakes, da cobras dere. |
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The other notable snakes found in Great Britain are the grass snake and the smooth snake. |
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She-male garter snakes exploit the amorous attentions of other males to warm up. |
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The path then climbs to Bwlch Cwm Brwynog, and then snakes along the ridge above Clogwyn Du'r Arddu towards the summit. |
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These alternatives are the eels and white snakes, the flying warriors and grannies, the shape shifters and state topplers. |
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A fire is the only thing that unstrings me entirely, I feel so helpless to combat it. I'm afraid of snakes, but I can kill them. |
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There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus. |
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Wart snakes are adapted to aquatic systems and prey almost exclusively on fish. |
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The acrochordids or wart snakes, have only one genus, with three species. All of these are found in Southeast Asia and Australasia. |
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Acrochordus javanicus of Java like the other wart snakes hunts fish and for this reason has modified its teeth into long fangs. |
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A guard and a conductor found the snakes while inspecting the train at a stop at Quang Ngai railway station. |
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Like many other kinds of snakes, copperheads are seen most often in the spring and fall, when they need to warm up. |
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Through impressionable eyes in India we meet ayahs and untouchables, snakes and jackals. |
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Although a wide range of reproductive modes are used by snakes, all snakes employ internal fertilization. |
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It has recently been suggested that all snakes may be venomous to a certain degree, with harmless snakes having weak venom and no fangs. |
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Medusa is described as a hideous mortal, with snakes instead of hair and the power to turn men to stone with her gaze. |
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In all venomous snakes, these glands open through ducts into grooved or hollow teeth in the upper jaw. |
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A poison is inhaled or ingested, whereas venom produced by snakes is injected into its victim via fangs. |
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Occasionally, individual snakes will reveal their presence with a loud and sustained hissing, hoping to warn off potential aggressors. |
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Also, the pattern of their ventral scales is totally different from that of snakes. |
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They shed their skin in patches, whereas most snakes shed their whole skin. |
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Although these lizards are often mistaken for snakes, a number of features differentiate them. |
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No potable water, no hospitals and not even antivenoms that are needed to treat people bitten by snakes found in Thar desert in large numbers. |
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As in snakes and many mammals, all lizards have a specialised olfactory system, the vomeronasal organ, used to detect pheromones. |
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Snakes often rank as top predators, and even ophidiophobes may appreciate the job that snakes do in controlling rats and mice. |
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Unlike snakes which shed the skin in a single piece, lizards slough their skin in several pieces. |
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Like snakes, chameleons do not have an outer or a middle ear, so there is neither an ear opening nor an eardrum. |
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Lizards and snakes share a movable quadrate bone, distinguishing them from the sphenodonts, which have more primitive and solid diapsid skulls. |
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Lizards typically have four legs feet and external ears, though some are legless, while snakes lack both of these characteristics. |
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The Colorado River snakes through the Mountain states, at one point forming the Grand Canyon. |
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Pet snakes can be fed relatively infrequently, usually once every 5 to 14 days. |
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It sounds rather Aesopish. Talking snakes, one bad apple ruining it all. I'm not so sure. |
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In such cases, the body of a snake or several snakes is left to steep in a jar or container of liquor. |
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In some snakes, most notably boas and pythons, there are vestiges of the hindlimbs in the form of a pair of pelvic spurs. |
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They have left the corn snakes and the really big snakes and lizards that couldn't be carried anyway. |
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Blind snakes were taken into the nest as prey items but some survived in nests to live in a novel commensal association with the owls. |
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The forests were lush and filled with life, from giant snakes to monkeys. |
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Mr Foo believes the reptile is an escaped pet as corn snakes are the kind most commonly kept as such. |
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Other snakes in the Crotalid family, such as the hundred-pace viper, create venoms containing hemorrhagic and proteolytic components. |
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The black mamba, Dendroaspis polylepis polylepis, is one of the most lethal snakes on Earth. |
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Autotomy of the tail, a feature found in some lizards is absent in most snakes. |
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Western cultures document the consumption of snakes under extreme circumstances of hunger. |
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The Irulas are also known to eat some of the snakes they catch and are very useful in rat extermination in the villages. |
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And sea snakes can absorb oxygen from water through their skin a bit like amphibians. |
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Look out for sea snakes, green turtles, squid, crocodile long-toms and leopard sharks. |
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The boa, a king snake, a grey-brown and several golden brown corn snakes, were among the haul. |
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They are solitary creatures, which hunt mostly at night usually feeding on crustaceans, fish, birds, squids, turtles and sea snakes. |
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He must know bush plant medicines and how to deal with venomous snakes that include spitting cobras, puff adders, boomslangs and black mambas. |
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A 6ft-long boa constrictor, a king snake and several large corn snakes were among the haul of reptiles taken. |
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In the case of snakes, the complete outer layer of skin is shed in one layer. |
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Cobras, white belly mangrove snakes, albino kraits and rat snakes were used for the demonstration. |
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Whereas, snakes were related to monitor lizards like the living Komodo dragons. |
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Contrary to the popular notion of snakes being slimy because of possible confusion of snakes with worms, snakeskin has a smooth, dry texture. |
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In the United States for example, all species of venomous snakes are pit vipers, with the exception of the coral snake. |
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There are brown snakes and red-bellied snakes that are both very dangerous. |
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Gary Gerald studies animal movement, so when two female brown snakes in the lab had babies, he wanted to see them in motion. |
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Silhouettes and x-rays of indigenous birds, kangaroos, and undulating brown snakes double as rivers specifying their place of origin. |
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Many nocturnal snakes have slit pupils while diurnal snakes have round pupils. |
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Most snakes focus by moving the lens back and forth in relation to the retina, while in the other amniote groups, the lens is stretched. |
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Generally, vision is best in arboreal snakes and weakest in burrowing snakes. |
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Pathology and molecular characterization of two novel atadenoviruses in colubrid snakes. |
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Packed full of exotic animals, fish, snakes, toucans, caiman crocodiles and even several species of monkey including marmosets and bush babies. |
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This allows snakes to be able to sense approaching animals by detecting faint vibrations in the ground. |
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The unique adaptations for the snake skull for ingesting large prey in more primitive macrostomatan snakes have been well documented. |
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The fork in the tongue gives snakes a sort of directional sense of smell and taste simultaneously. |
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There are over 2,900 species of snakes ranging as far northward as the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia and southward through Australia. |
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More advanced snakes have no remnants of limbs, but basal snakes such as pythons and boas do have traces of highly reduced, vestigial hind limbs. |
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Of the roughly 725 species of venomous snakes worldwide, only 250 are able to kill a human with one bite. |
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Nonfatal bites from venomous snakes may result in the need for amputation of a limb or part thereof. |
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Milk snakes are nonvenomous constrictors, generally quite placid and are kept as pets. |
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With the exception of large constrictors, nonvenomous snakes are not a threat to humans. |
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She said milk snakes were not as deadly as others with similar markings, such as coral snakes. |
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Evidence of prey luring exists for numerous species of viperid, clapid, and boid snakes as well as six colubrids. |
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Intercession to Saint George of Edathua is believed to be efficacious in repelling snakes and in curing mental ailments. |
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Less esteemed was her attempt to drive all snakes from the Apple Isle by paying convicts a shilling for each reptilian head brought to her. |
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Some species only rarely preyed upon by the polecat include European hedgehogs, asp vipers, grass snakes and insects. |
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While the Australian black, brown, copperhead, the death adder, and taipan snakes are all poisonous, the real troublemaker is the tiger snake. |
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Unless startled or injured, most snakes prefer to avoid contact and will not attack humans. |
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Unlike the majority of snakes which lay eggs, tentacled snakes are an aquatic species that produce eggs inside their body during pregnancy. |
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Certain South-east Asian snakes are luticoles and have a special side-winding gait for moving over muddy surfaces. |
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In the Late Cretaceous, snakes recolonized land, and continued to diversify into today's snakes. |
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In one section of his office, the walls are lined with terraria holding lizards and snakes. |
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These snakes can perform a controlled glide for hundreds of feet depending upon launch altitude and can even turn in midair. |
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Some primitive snakes are known to have possessed hindlimbs, but their pelvic bones lacked a direct connection to the vertebrae. |
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The expansion of grasslands in North America also led to an explosive radiation among snakes. |
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Chemoreception and kin discrimination by neonate smooth snakes, Coronella austriaca. |
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In addition to infections, floods like Katrina displace snakes and are generally accompanied by an increased incidence in snakebites. |
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It's a little bit like snakes and ladders where you roll the dice and see what you get. |
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Ten teams, six points separating them and a second half of the season playing snakes and ladders. |
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New Delhi Sitting in a small room at Sapera Basti in east Delhi, Munni and Guddu are busy playing a board game of snakes and ladders. |
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An experimental test of the link between foraging, habitat selection and thermoregulation in black rat snakes Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta. |
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There is no doubt that many have been killed by large elapids, and that Aborigines treat such 'cheeky' snakes with great respect. |
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The reptiles stolen include a PS500 sunglow boa, two mildly poisonous hognose snakes and two blood pythons. |
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Based on comparative anatomy, there is consensus that snakes descended from lizards. |
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Snake handlers use snakes as an integral part of church worship in order to exhibit their faith in divine protection. |
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Lindwyrms are wingless dragons that look like huge snakes. Some lindwyrms have two tiny feet that are almost useless. |
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The fossil record of snakes is relatively poor because snake skeletons are typically small and fragile making fossilization uncommon. |
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The group is paraphyletic as it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia which are also squamates. |
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While on tree branches, snakes use several modes of locomotion depending on species and bark texture. |
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The oldest preserved descriptions of snakes can be found in the Brooklyn Papyrus. |
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Additionally, sea snakes are widespread throughout the Indian and Pacific Oceans. |
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The farmer, however, knowing the habits of joint snakes, had hidden one of the middle pieces in his pocket. |
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Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. |
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Nat knew, though he had never seen one, that there were such things as joint snakes and hoop snakes. |
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