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Natural selection also explains many basic revulsions, such as the horrid smell of rotting meat, or fears, such as the fear of snakes or standing close to the edge of a cliff.
You see insects, you see frogs, snakes, eagles, butterflies, frogs, snakes, eagles.
The insects are eaten by the frogs; the frogs are eaten by the snakes; the snakes are eaten by the eagles.
Snakes are occasionally born with legs.
That's why people keep mammals in the home and not turtles or snakes or something like that, who don't have that kind of empathy.
These people who had lifelong fears of snakes were saying things like, "Look how beautiful that snake is."
She was scared of snakes.
It’s one of thousands of animal species, like frogs, jellyfish, salamanders, and snakes, that use toxic chemicals to defend themselves – in this case, by spewing poisonous liquid from glands in its abdomen.
And venomous snakes store their flesh-eating, blood-clotting compounds in specialized compartments that only have one exit: through the fangs and into their prey or predator.
Snakes also employ the second strategy: built-in biochemical resistance.
That means that only the most toxic salamanders can avoid being eaten— and only the most resistant snakes will survive the meal.
Snakes include some infrared in their reality, and honeybees include ultraviolet in their view of the world, and of course we build machines in the dashboards of our cars to pick up on signals in the radio frequency range, and we built machines in hospitals to pick up on the X-ray range.
So snakes have heat pits with which to detect infrared, and the ghost knifefish has electroreceptors, and the star-nosed mole has this appendage with 22 fingers on it with which it feels around and constructs a 3D model of the world, and many birds have magnetite so they can orient to the magnetic field of the planet.
SL: I could do without things like cockroaches and snakes.
JL: Well, I'm okay with snakes as long as they're not venomous or constrict you or anything.
You have to deal with sandstorms and snakes and scorpions, and it's very difficult to find good fossils there.
After all, infrared light is visible to snakes, and ultraviolet light is visible to birds.
The Spanish set off into the jungle, but the few that return come back with stories, stories of powerful shamans, of warriors with poisoned arrows, of trees so tall they blotted out the sun, spiders that ate birds, snakes that swallowed men whole and a river that boiled.
It's 1.5 acres of persimmon trees, this prolific blackberry bush that snakes around a community garden, all smack-dab, by the way, in the middle of urban Oakland.
They'll say, "I'm surrounded by a bunch of snakes and sharks.
Are there going to be a lot of cats and snakes around, or will I live in an upper-class neighborhood where all I have to do is behave well and proper, and that will gain me social acceptance?
Revered for their ability to dispatch venomous snakes, catch birds, and kill rats, domestic cats became important to Egyptian religious culture.
Egyptian ship cats cruised the Nile, holding poisonous river snakes at bay.
Nowadays, any species of venomous snakes, any species of spider, any species of scorpion, has its own venom signature, if you will, made out of dozens, if not hundreds, of chemical compounds.
And animals like snakes and scorpions use constrained peptides in their venom.
There were palm trees and snakes in the Arctic.
I ate snails, vultures, rabbits, snakes, and anything that had life.
Take, for example, this child of a Barasana in the Northwest Amazon, the people of the anaconda who believe that mythologically they came up the milk river from the east in the belly of sacred snakes.
When I was a kid, growing up in New York, I was smitten by snakes, the same way most kids are smitten by tops, marbles, cars, trains, cricket balls.
And my mother, brave lady, was partly to blame, taking me to the New York Natural History Museum, buying me books on snakes, and then starting this infamous career of mine, which has culminated in of course, arriving in India 60 years ago, brought by my mother, Doris Norden, and my stepfather, Rama Chattopadhyaya.
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