Article: snake

Article: U.Va. Research: Snake Phobia Hardwired
AP Online;  February 29, 2008 ;     417 words ......evolutionary bias against snakes and spiders. Virginia is home to three types of venomous snakes _ copperheads, canebrake...Inland Fisheries, thinks snakes have a bad rap, and said...eat mice, rats and other snakes. Dixon said the easiest way to identify dangerous snakes in Virginia ...

Article: Crossing paths with a snake.
FDA Consumer;  July 1, 1987 ;     700+ words ......and only about 20 species of venomous snakes. But that does not make a snakebite...the treatments for bites by venomous snakes. In the past two or three decades...researchers havefound that when venomous snakes bite they don't always release...

Article: Snakes of the Southeast.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
SciTech Book News;  March 1, 2006 ;     126 words ...0820326526 Snakes of the Southeast. Gibbons, Whit and Mike Dorcas. Univ...nature book QL666 For the general reader, this guide to 52 snakes of the Southeast displays approximately 300 color photographs...activity, and identification. Small, medium, large, water, and venomous snakes are included as ...

Article: Venomous Snakes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
The Bookwatch;  October 1, 2004 ;     154 words ...Venomous Snakes Ludwig Trutnau Krieger Publishing Company...32902-9542 1575241382 $74.50 1-800-724-0025 Venomous Snakes: Snakes In The Terrarium by Ludwig Trutnau...descriptions of 171 difference species, Venomous Snakes is beautifully enhanced with 126 color...

Article: Serpents and Snakes
Myths and Legends of the World;      700+ words ...Serpents and Snakes Serpents and snakes play a role in many of the world's myths and legends. Sometimes these mythic beasts appear as ordinary snakes. At other times, they take on magical or monstrous forms. Serpents...

Article: Keeping the serpent at bay: a joint program between the defense and agriculture departments aims to keep snakes from escaping Guam.
Airman;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......calling. It should be noisy with birds. The snakes ... He let the words trail off. Dozens...narrow opening, large enough for brown tree snakes to enter, but funnel shaped to prevent...troublesome wildlife problem. He stuffs the snakes in a sack and later deposits his haul...

Article: The mating game, snake style: for just a few weeks each year, thousands of snakes slither in search of mates. (red-sided garter snakes; the Narcisse Wildlife Management Area near Winnipeg, Manitoba)(Brief Article)
Animals;  November 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......just a few weeks each year, thousands of snakes slither in search of mates. For most of...of writhing reptiles, a sething sea of snakes. School buses decant some 400 schoolchildren...18,000 garters; the third, some 15,000. Snakes pile two feet deep in places, wiggling...

Article: Cairo Customs Prevents Snakes on a Plane
AP Online;  May 24, 2007 ;     160 words ......Arabia who was trying to smuggle 700 live snakes on a plane, airport authorities said...told them his carryon bag contained live snakes after he was asked to open it. Tulba opened his bag to show the snakes to the police and asked the officers...

Article: Lizards and snakes ... oh, my! The American Museum of Natural History is the ideal showcase for live squamates and their remarkable adaptations for survival, including projectile tongues, deadly venom, amazing camouflage, and sometimes surprising modes of locomotion.(Ecology)
USA Today (Magazine);  September 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...LIZARDS & SNAKES: Alive! introduces visitors to a diversity...includes legged and legless lizards and snakes. It showcases live specimens and their...species of lizard on Earth. 'Lizards & Snakes: Alive!' brings science to life by inviting...

Article: I wonder ... how snakes hear without ears.(Science Corner)
Highlights for Children;  May 1, 2003 ;     38 words ...Snakes don't hear the sounds carried by air very well. Some snakes have a thin, bony plate in their heads to collect sounds. Snakes do most of their hearing by feeling the ground. They can feel tiny movements of the ground made by other animals.

Article: Snakes Have Feelings, Too.(ways to enjoy camping and avoid snakes)(Brief Article)
Camping Magazine;  May 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Following are some techniques for keeping snakes at camp that will help reduce the trauma...understand and overcome their aversion to snakes. This can also help them begin to overcome...many campers learn accurate facts about snakes at school and from educational television...

Article: Brazilian city invaded by snakes as deforestation destroys Amazon
AP Worldstream;  March 11, 2008 ;     177 words ...Snakes are increasingly invading the eastern Amazon's largest...agency, known as Ibama, has been called out to capture 21 snakes this year in Belem, a sprawling metropolis of 1.5 million...more than one or two calls a month, she said. No poisonous snakes were reported, she said. But the captured ...

Article: SNAKES IN THE GRASS WEAVING SUCCESS FOR EVERYONE.(Brief Article)
Arts & Activities;  December 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......typically developing children. The large Snakes in the Grass weaving was conceived as...begin the major project. Creation of the snakes was step one. Even though we work with...assignment, but they created their individual snakes with creativity and individual pride...

Article: Biologists: Lake Erie snakes no longer threatened
AP Online;  June 8, 2008 ;     265 words ......in the early 20th century to kill the snakes. As vacationers crowded the resort communities...Kelleys islands each summer, more of the snakes _ which are known to bite _ were eliminated. Just 1,200 adult water snakes were left about 20 years ago, Northern...