SquamataBase: a natural history database and R package for comparative biology of snake feeding habits [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2020 Public databases in taxonomy, phylogenetics and geographic and fossil occurrence records are key research tools that provide raw materials, on which broad-scale analyses and synthesis in their respective fields are based.
Michael Grundler
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The fast and forceful kicking strike of the secretary bird [PDF]
, 2016 The study of animal locomotion has uncovered principles that can be applied to bio-inspired robotics, prosthetics and rehabilitation medicine, while also providing insight into musculoskeletal form and function [1, 2, 3, 4].
Biewener +13 more
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The ecological origins of snakes as revealed by skull evolution
Nature Communications, 2018 The ecological origin of snakes remains amongst the most controversial topics in evolution, with three competing hypotheses: fossorial; marine; or terrestrial.
Filipe O. Da Silva +7 more
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Prevalence of Hepatozoon spp. (Apicomplexa, Hepatozoidae) among recently captured Brazilian snakes
Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, 2003 The goal of this study was to determine the prevalence of Hepatozoon spp. infection in recently captured snakes from Botucatu, São Paulo State, Brazil. Blood was collected from all snakes by ventral tail venipuncture.
L.H. O'Dwyer +4 more
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The algebraic combinatorics of snakes [PDF]
, 2011 Snakes are analogues of alternating permutations defined for any Coxeter group. We study these objects from the point of view of combinatorial Hopf algebras, such as noncommutative symmetric functions and their generalizations.
Josuat-Vergès, Matthieu +2 more
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Efficacy of an Online Native Snake Identification Search Engine for Public Use
Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2019 Visual methods of species identification are used both in research and recreational contexts because they are inexpensive, non-invasive, and believed to be effective among uniquely identifiable individuals.
Scott E. Henke +4 more
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Snake Robot Gait Decomposition and Gait Parameter Optimization [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 This paper proposes Gait Decomposition (G.D), a method of mathematically decomposing snake movements, and Gait Parameter Gradient (GPG), a method of optimizing decomposed gait parameters. G.D is a method that can express the snake gait mathematically and concisely from generating movement using the curve function to the motor control order when ...
arxiv
Lateral oscillation and body compliance help snakes and snake robots stably traverse large, smooth obstacles [PDF]
Integrative and Comparative Biology (2020), 60 (1), 171, 2020 Snakes can move through almost any terrain. Similarly, snake robots hold the promise as a versatile platform to traverse complex environments like earthquake rubble. Unlike snake locomotion on flat surfaces which is inherently stable, when snakes traverse complex terrain by deforming their body out of plane, it becomes challenging to maintain stability.
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Some algebraic invariants of the edge ideals of some $q$-fold bristled graphs [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 In this paper, we compute the exact values of regularity of the quotient rings of the edge ideals associated to multi triangular snake and multi triangular ouroboros snake graphs. Also we compute the exact values of depth, Stanley depth, regularity and projective dimension of the quotient rings of the edge ideals associated to $q$-fold bristled graphs ...
arxiv
Linking Snake Behavior to Nest Predation in a Midwestern Bird Community
, 2010 Nest predators can adversely affect the viability of songbird populations, and their impact is exacerbated in fragmented habitats. Despite substantial research on this predator-prey interaction, however, almost all of the focus has been on the birds ...
Brawn, Jeffrey D. +4 more
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