For almost 30 years, the Ellen Trout Zoo and director Gordon Henley have worked to bring back North America’s rarest snake, the Louisiana pine snake. They haven’t had much luck yet, and experts say the snake may become extinct if efforts to save it don’t show success soon.
In the early 1980s, Ellen Trout Zoo became […]
Alabama police say that the person who removed 22 tree boa snakes from a garden shed was simply concerned about the welfare of the reptiles. Jacob Brooks of Prallville, Alabama, filed a theft report when he returned home and found his pets missing, the Montgomery Advertiser reported. The Amazon tree boas had total value of […]
LAHORE: The Reptiles Hunting Club, in collaboration with the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Veterinary Sciences (UVAS), arranged a snake show on the college campus on Monday. According to a press release issued by the UVAS, Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr Muhammad Nawaz inaugurated the show, which exhibited various species of snakes, including […]
A new snake species was found in Australia, a country renowned for its unusual and often venomous animals. A single specimen of the central ranges taipan, a snake, was discovered crossing a dirt track in the scorching-hot, central desert region. After being bagged, it was sent to the Western Australian Museum where it was identified as […]
Here is a YouTube video of a woman who is getting some love from a snake. Apparently, her roommate’s pet python got loose and cozied up with her. In the clip, you will see the police trying to help her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssbnW3uhPVc
I just finished reading this book and it is fascinating. It is based on the career of the American biologist Dr. Joe Slowinski, one of the leading experts on venomous snakes in the world. In 2001, Joe went on an expedition in the jungle of Burma, in search of rare species of snakes. It was the most […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
New York (PTI): Snakes can’t hear as they don’t have an ear, it is often believed. But, a new study has found that the reptiles do possess an “inner” ear with a functional cochlea which they use to detect vibrations caused by prey.
A team of international researchers has carried out the study and found that […]