Continuing his South African adventure, Steve goes up against a couple of cheetahs in a 'friendly' game of football, meets the monkey-snatching crowned eagle and turns the latest camera technology on a trio of Africa's deadliest snakes. Rate S3.E10 ∙ Australia, Part 2Fri, May 11, 2012...
An exclusive National Geographic investigation reveals widespread animal suffering in Amazonian port towns, fueled by 'selfie safaris.'
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He had seen large forces decimated by malaria, insects, snakes, poison darts, starvation, and insanity. He knew better. He and his two companions would travel light, carry their own supplies, eat off the land, pose no threat to the natives, and endure months of hardship in their search ...
Former British Army captain Ed Stafford, 33, is well on the way to becoming the first man in history to walk from the source of the Amazon in the mountains of Peru to its mouth in Brazil. And he's not doing it in the hope of achieving notoriety, nor is he being paid handsomely f...
Solange Serrano, a researcher at the Laboratory of Applied Toxicology at the Instituto Butantan in Sao Paulo, Brazil, studies theproteintoxins invenomfrom these snakes. In a recent article in the journalMolecular & Cellular Proteomics, scientists from Serrano's laboratory, in collaboration with resear...
Millions of animals produce toxic substances, but most of them are not poisonous. To be poisonous, an animal must be toxic to eat, or in extreme cases, even to lick. For instance, venomous snakes like the lethal inland taipan are not poisonous. They are only dangerous if they bite you,...
But also in the last 10 to 20 years we have experienced an influx of expatriates, mainly from Southeast Asia, and who demand to eat certain types of meat such as turtles, snakes, primates.” Scientists have previously linked these kinds of wet markets to zoonotic diseases. The H5N1 ...