... and otters together and lived off wild birds and the occasional deer. These appearances have the power to reconfigure all kinds of territorial claims, and almost every aspect of the accounts of Ashley Gang is compelled by nature’s politics. The chapter also describes traces of unnaturally large snakes...

... of mangroves. It describes the Mayo coastal thornscrub, foothills thornscrub and oak woodland. It also mentions that in Mayo lands snakes are feared and persecuted, with two notable and large exceptions: the boa constrictor and the indigo snake. Agiabampo Estero Aquiropo Estero Avicennia germinans ciali...

...Nag Panchami (Snake's [Cobra's] Fifth) is a minor festival celebrated throughout North India in the latter half of July on the fifth day of the light half of the Hindu month Shravan. As the name implies, Nag Panchami is a festival in honor of snakes. Gurus are honored, patrons...

...This chapter focuses on the nuisances, risks, dangers, and other hazards involved in the gathering of rattan canes. Bees and wasps are common occupational nuisances in rattan gathering, along with snakes. Southeast Asia is home to a rich diversity of venomous snakes such as cobras, pit vipers...

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...This chapter introduces the “Snake Lemma” and uses it to prove the statement that GΓ(t) = GΔ(t′) is “often” true. It first describes an indexing of the Γ preaccordion and of the Δ′ preaccordion; each indexing visits the episodes of the sequence in order from left...

...This chapter examines the fossil herpetofauna of Porcupine Cave. It documents the presence and taxonomic diversity of amphibians (salamanders and anurans) and reptiles (lizards and snakes) that are recovered from the cave, and explores the paleoclimatic information which can be derived from...

...This chapter opens with derwishes who made a living by charming snakes out of houses, and then moves on to the “Howah,” who performed tricks in the street for voluntary contributions—for example, sleight-of-hand and magic tricks using snakes, knives, and fire breathing. It also looks at fortune...

...Knowledge of predators is necessary to mitigate losses to nest predation. We monitored songbird nests with video cameras at two areas in Texas. Snakes were the most frequent nest-predator group, followed by birds, fire ants, cowbirds, and mammals. Snake and fire ant predation primarily occurred...

...Predation is the primary causeof nest mortality for most passerines, but observations of real-time nest defense are rare. We quantified nest-defense behaviors from video of 48 visits by snakes to 34 nests of grassland passerines; 37 visits resulted in predation. When adult birds encountered snakes...

... by rat snakes, kingsnakes, and fire ants. Parental outcomes of partial depredation included abandoning the nest or remaining with the nest either until hatching or failure from another predation event. Nests with fewer eggs remaining or those depredated early in incubation were more likely...

...This chapter discusses Joe Oliver’s influence on Armstrong and his advice to play more melody rather than playing “snakes.” It also discusses the breaks that Oliver and Armstrong made in Chicago and how this became a sensation. The break that opens “Dippermouth Blues” is a tonic-diminished break...

...This chapter examines snakes, starting with the Boa Constrictor. The arrival of the Boa Constrictor to the United States was associated with the pet trade, where it was first reported from Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida, in 1994 and thought to have been established. In light of its broad diet...

... for herpetologists studying lizards and snakes. Most of the interior deserts are not accessible except by helicopter, so the sheer wilderness is the only thing that motivates most herpetologists to do fieldwork. The chapter highlights the importance of prior planning, trying again, maximizing only what will matter...

...This chapter provides an overview of the fieldwork and studies conducted at Sachavacayoc Centre, in the Tambopata Province of southeastern Peru. It looks into an encounter with Drepanoides anomalus, a tiny red snake more commonly known as the Amazon Egg-Eater Snake or the Black...

...This chapter focuses on an expedition to Guinea in July 2021 to further understand effective snakebite treatment. The work primarily aimed to make snakebite treatment available in Congo. The chapter provides an overview of how to capture snakes and the researchers' inevitable struggle...

...Islands and Snakes. Harvey B. Lillywhite and Marcio Martins, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2023. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197641521.003.0007 Island ecosystems are interesting models for studying patterns of species distribution. Especially in cases of organisms...

...Islands and Snakes. Harvey B. Lillywhite and Marcio Martins, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2023. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197641521.003.0015 Snakes have a successful and pervasive presence on islands, and in many cases populations of snakes on islands are robust...

...The Fraser-Wilcox illusion is one of the anomalous motion illusions observed in a stationary image, and its extension, including “rotating snakes,” which has been used extensively via the Internet, are reviewed in this chapter. Perceptual dimorphism featuring the Fraser-Wilcox illusion is explained...

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