Archive for March, 2008

Information on future pet snake? Small ones?

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Haven't actually decided to get one yet, though I would like to. Most of the places I have found though aren't quite what I'm looking for. I'd like a small snake, even tiny, and one that isn't going to be hazardous to very small dogs. I was actually looking at Texas Brown snakes, but how […]

Snakes alive! Animal expert loves reptiles including the Cobra Snake

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Gareth Wilson HERALD REPORTER
While some animal lovers prefer dogs or cats as pets, Port Elizabeth wildlife specialist Mark Marshall has 161 venomous and non-venomous snakes roaming in his back yard, ranging from the Cape cobra and puff adder to the larger boa constrictors and pythons.
Where most people run away in the face of danger, or […]

Humans are hard-wired to spot Snakes

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

Humans have an innate ability to spot snakes, according to University of Virginia researcher Vanessa LoBue.

She asked both adults and children to find a target picture from a set of nine images, these targets were either snakes, flowers, frogs or caterpillars. Both young and old detected the snakes faster than the other three (research abstract).
Snakes […]

Global warming may cause invasion of pythons in North America

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Washington, Feb 25 (ANI): Climate researchers have suggested that pythons could soon spread out to new parts of North America, due to global warming.
According to a report in Discovery News, researchers have based their theory on climate modeling for the year 2100, which predicts the likely places in North America where pythons might spread.  The invasion […]