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Snakes Represent Emotionally Salient Stimuli That May Evoke Both Fear and Disgust
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Humans perceive snakes as threatening stimuli, resulting in fast emotional and behavioral responses. However, snake species differ in their true level of danger and are highly variable in appearance despite the uniform legless form.
Gerd Kvale
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Dangerous snakes, deadly snakes and medically important snakes [PDF]
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2013 This correspondence argues that the dangerousness of a venomous snake species is not solely determined by the venom characteristics or the lethality of the snake, and recognizes that medical importance comprises a key variable as well.
Anjana Silva
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Are Diet Preferences Associated to Skulls Shape Diversification in Xenodontine Snakes? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Snakes are a highly successful group of vertebrates, within great diversity in habitat, diet, and morphology. The unique adaptations for the snake skull for ingesting large prey in more primitive macrostomatan snakes have been well documented.
Julia Klaczko +2 more
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Snakes and Snake Bite in Nepal [PDF]
Tropical Doctor, 1998 At Nepal's northern border with Tibet is the great Himalaya Range. capped by Mount Everest itself (8848 ni) and including four of the other eight highest mountains in the world. South of the Kathmandu Valley at the centre of the country are the lesser mountains of the Mahabharat Range and Churia Ghati Hills.
Bhetwal, BB, O'Shea, Mark, Warrell, D.A.
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People and Nature, 2021 Research on interactions between humans and deadly snakes has focused on situations that result in high rates of snakebite; but we can also learn from cases where snakes and people coexist peacefully. For example, coastal bays near Noumea, in the Pacific
Vinay Udyawer +2 more
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Parasitic helminths in snakes from the global legal trade
Helminthologia, 2021 In recent years, the demand for snakes imported from different countries around the world has increased in Slovakia. However, such snakes can be infected with a wide variety of parasites.
Halán M., Kottferová L.
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A century of waiting: description of a new Epictia Gray, 1845 (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae) based on specimens housed for more than 100 years in the collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna (NMW) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 We describe a new species of Epictia based on eight specimens from Nicaragua collected and housed in the collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna for more than a century.
Claudia Koch +2 more
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Grass Snakes (Natrix natrix) as a Reservoir of Alaria alata and Other Parasites
Pathogens, 2022 The aim of the study was to investigate the occurrence of Alaria alata (Goeze, 1782) in fifty-one grass snakes (Natrix natrix) collected in Gostynińsko-Włocławski Landscape Park. Each snake was tested for the presence of A.
Aneta Bełcik +9 more
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Molecular evolution of the infrared sensory gene TRPA1 in snakes and implications for functional studies. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 TRPA1 is a calcium ion channel protein recently identified as the infrared receptor in pit organ-containing snakes. Therefore, understanding the molecular evolution of TRPA1 may help to illuminate the origin of "heat vision" in snakes and reveal the ...
Jie Geng +3 more
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