Sea snakes are mostly confined to thewarm tropical waters of the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean, with a few species found well out into Oceania. The geographic range of one species, Pelamis platurus, is wider than that of any other reptile species, except for a few species of ...
Living in the rainforests of South America, there lives a lizard that can walk on water. Called the basilisk lizard, this tropical reptile makes a great pet for an experienced caretaker, and people come from all over the world to watch it defy gravity in its native habitat. What Is a Bas...
Education for women is the best way to lower birth rates, the argument goes, and the better educated a women is, the more she will postpone motherhood. The unstated implication is that the later motherhood is postponed, the fewer children women will manage to have, due to age-related ferti...
This way you can spot a snake that may be sheltering under it and take action quickly. • Watch out when sitting down on a rock or tree stump, you might be sitting on a snake. • Don’t try to chase the snake off the trail, this is why most people get bit by snakes. • ...
What drives diversification? Range expansion tops climate, life history, habitat and size in lizards and snakesecologymacroevolutionphylogenysquamatesAim A major challenge in ecology and evolutionary biology is to explain the dramatic differences in species richness among clades. Much variation in richness ...
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One reason thatchimpanzeesdon’t kill or injure more humans than they do is that they are elusive and difficult to find in their natural habitat. Once thought peaceable, it became obvious to researchers such as Jane Goodall that chimps can behave with a nearly humanlike viciousness. In some ...
A fastening for ropes. The sailor secured the rope on the frog. 11 Cow A large domesticated mammal with hooves, raised for its meat, milk, or as a work animal. The farmer milked the cow at dawn. 7 Frog To hunt or catch frogs. They went frogging in the marsh last summer. 6 Cow ...
Coffee. It’s the beverage that many of us rely on to galvanize us into action in the morning. In today’s world, it’s ubiquitous. But coffee is so much
Santa Cruz’s airport is called Baltra, and you’ll be able to fly here from Quito or Guayaquil. Once you arrive, everyone will board the shuttle to the docks. Santa Cruz Island is a free 5-minute ferry ride from the Baltra docks. From the docks on the Santa Cruz side it’s abo...