000 people are estimated to be bitten by venomous snakes in the United States, leading to around 5 snake-related casualties. Most fatal snake bites in the U.S. are delivered to the Western Diamondback Rattlesnake and the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake that are native in the Southern United ...
2 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 3101 Valley Life Sciences, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. 3 Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, PO Box 8042, Statesboro, Georgia 30460, USA. 4 Department of Biology, The ...
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 3101 Valley Life Sciences, Berkeley, 94720, California, USA Alison R. Davis Rabosky & Jimmy A. McGuire Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, PO Box 8042, Statesboro, 30460, Georgia...
Leite PT, Kaefer IL, Cechin SZ (2009) Diet of Philodryas olfersii (Serpentes, Colubridae) during hydroelectric dam flooding in southern Brazil. North West J Zool 5(1):53–60 Madsen T, Ujvari B, Olsson M (2005) Old pythons stay fit; effects of haematozoan infections on life history trai...
The BPP-CNP family of proteins lowers the blood pressure of prey during envenomation. Its low abundance in our library indicates that BPP-CNP may not have a significant role in envenomation by Sistrurus, unlike bites by other pitvipers (Bothrops and Lachesis) in Southern America [15, 98]. ...
In a deep southern town where the devil comes to pray A choir sings with their eyes sewn shut By a stream the children playing, water flowing with blood The pastor stands on his pulpit, while preaching of hell On the hilltop church with demons ringing the bells ...
How human beings detect and assess aposematic signals has, to our knowledge, not been explored and could hold the key to our current (mis)understanding of snake fear and phobia. We tested school children in Southern France (see map - S1) for their response to snake and non-snake stimuli ...
Originally, this taxon was considered a subspecies of M. lemniscatus, distributed across the Amazon region to the foothills of the Andes from northern Brazil, southern Venezuela, and Colombia to Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia [18,79]. However, a molecular phylogenetic analysis conducted by Hurtado-...