snakes

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds... but garter snakes mean no mail for you! "Snake infestation"? They're garter snakes and they've been here for millions of years. I don't even know if it's even legal to...

PBS is having a Nature episode on a woman in Africa and her work with Black Mambas - catching, studying, demonstrating, protecting, etc. Neat, educational, interesting. Catch it now or another time, but catch it!!!!:):):):)

Hi Very interesting article in Science News this week: "How the Snake Got its Fangs." It turns out that difficulty of placing snakes in the evolutionary tree, with fang-placement seemingly scattered about, has been addressed by a researcher named Freek Vonk. Ok - I've all but given away...

Is this truly an example of a situation where natural selection is stymied? http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1016-snake.html CITATION: Ben Phillips and Richards Shine (2007). When dinner is dangerous: toxic frogs elicit species-specific responses from a generalist snake predator. The...

I was at Lowe's today to buy mulch. There was a huge display of Snake-Away snake repellent. The display trumpeted that it was "university tested." The ingredients were primarily naphthalene and sulfur. Mothballs and sulfur are two old folk remedies to keep snakes out of the yard. The best I...

A Danish paper printed an article on this story. Apparently, an earthquake bureau in Nanning uses video-monitoring of snakes to predict earthquakes: I have my doubts, especially, considering that the snakes are said to sense an earthquake 3-5 days before it happens, which seems to me to be...

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EEK! These buggers are so cool!

Suppose I'm a vegetarian who wants to own a large snake, but doesn't want to feed it other animals (whether live or in processed form). Is there any way to keep a snake healthy on a vegetarian diet? Can I feed it vegetarian meat balls or something?

This is from Answers In Genesis They're getting odder and odder.