Snake bellies help scientists get a grip
For many of us, the bodies of moving snakes look like little more than wiggly strands of spaghetti.
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Snakes on a rope: Researchers take a unique look at the climbing abilities of boa constrictors
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a unique study involving young boa constrictors, University of Cincinnati researchers put snakes to work on varying diameters and flexibility of vertical rope to examine how they might move around on branches ...
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Scheme launched to improve health of french bulldogs, pugs and bulldogs
A new screening scheme aims to provide breeders of French bulldogs, pugs and bulldogs with more information about the health of their dogs, helping them reduce the risk of breeding puppies with potentially serious breathing ...
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Feb 5, 2019
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Crushing snakes kill by blood constriction, not suffocation
Death by suffocation seems like an awfully protracted way to go and death by suffocation in the grip of a boa constrictor's coils is the stuff of nightmares. Yet Scott Boback from Dickinson College, USA, wasn't so sure that ...
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Long hop from Nicaragua to US for frogs and spiders sold as 'pets'
With great care, Yesenia Talavera transfers a tiny frog from a plant, where it was sleeping, to a plastic container with breathing holes, a moist sponge, and some room to jump.
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Ruthless boas know when to ditch their squeeze
Boa constrictors can sense the heartbeat of their quarry as they suffocate it, thus giving themselves the signal to know when the prey is dead, scientists say.
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Study shows snakes, thought to be solitary eaters, coordinate hunts
Snakes, although as social as birds and mammals, have long been thought to be solitary hunters and eaters. A new study from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, shows that some snakes coordinate their hunts to increase ...
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Scientists discover new type of virus responsible for a devastating disease in snakes
A novel virus has been identified as the possible cause of a common but mysterious disease that kills a significant number of pet snakes all over the world, thanks to research led by scientists at the University of California, ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 14, 2012
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Snakes as therapy animals: Reptiles help heal in Brazil
A yellow-and-brown boa constrictor wraps itself around David de Oliveira Gomes's neck like a scarf, but the 15-year-old Brazilian with autism is fascinated, not afraid.
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Dutch to ban raw ivory sales from 2019
The Netherlands said Monday it will ban all raw ivory sales from next year, as it unveiled the results of a major operation to combat trafficking in endangered animals and plants.
Ecology
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