This is a service of EIN news a digital news provider

Boa Newsletter sign up now

  • F&WS Seeks Comment on Invasive Snakes Control Plan (18 Mar 2010 03:42)

    ... F&WS Seeks Comment on Invasive Snakes Control Plan The U.S. Fish and Wildlife ... in south Florida, and a population of boa constrictors is established south of Miami. In ... the reticulated python, southern African python, yellow anaconda, DeSchauensees anaconda, green anaconda, and Beni anaconda. ...

  • Peculiar pets: students, city resident find exotic animals to be perfect pets (17 Mar 2010 12:20)

    ... 1321 S. Mission St., holds a red-tailed boa constrictor. Garland started breeding boas around the age of 16 and opened ... The Charlotte senior cares for dozens of snakes, turtles and other reptiles as part of ...

  • Rhode Island Proposes Changes to Exotic Animal Rules (17 Mar 2010 11:30)

    ... kept without a permit: All species of boas and pythons, except the emerald tree boa, green tree python, African rock python, reticulated ... python, reticulated python and all species of anaconda; Shield-tailed snakes, sunbeam snakes and others in ...

  • Choir pupils are New York-bound; snakes are at large in Florida (16 Mar 2010 03:31)

    ... named Burmese and Northern Africa pythons and boa constrictors, all breeding and established, as the ... snakes. "We're also concerned that the green anaconda may be out there, but there's no ... the Old World, the Eastern Hemisphere. The boas and green anacondas hail from South and ...

  • Hartsburg teen a breeder of snakes (16 Mar 2010 09:32)

    ... him to a nearby cemetery to catch snakes. “It was just for fun,” Ross said. ... Jonathon to watch over the Hogg Island boas in the school science lab. He warned ... He warned the young snake-keeper that the boa was about to drop babies. “He gave ...

  • Nothing rattles snake expert (13 Mar 2010 09:01)

    ... Volunteer is helping museum re-tag reptile collection By Joe Tash, SPECIAL TO THE ... Schwenkmeyer examined a one-gallon jar containing several rattlesnake specimens at the Natural History Museum in Balboa Park on March 3. Nelvin C. Cepeda ...

  • Snakes have 'heat-seeking vision' (14 Mar 2010 19:35)

    ... Snakes use an infrared heat-sensing system to hunt ... hunt down their prey, scientists believe. Pythons, boas, rattlesnakes and other members of the family ... 'sixth sense' that mammals and even other reptiles cannot boast. They have special pits located ...

  • Snakes Stolen From Wake Forest Pet Store (13 Mar 2010 02:27)

    ... early last week and 15 Red Tail Boa Constrictors were taken," Lund said. Lund said ... glass and then slithered in. "Red Tail Boas are the Cadillac of snakes. The person who stole the stakes knows ...

  • Scientists reveal how snakes 'see' at night (15 Mar 2010 00:26)

    ... Scientists reveal how snakes 'see' at night Scientists revealed Sunday for ... has been known for decades that rattlesnakes, boas and pythons have so-called pit organs between ... kill prey blindfolded. But exactly how these reptiles detect and convert infrared signals into nerve ...

  • Scientists Reveal How Snakes 'See' in the Dark (15 Mar 2010 14:39)

    ... Scientists Reveal How Snakes 'See' in the Dark Updated: Monday, 15 ... has been known for decades that rattlesnakes, boas and pythons have so-called pit organs between ... and kill prey blindfolded. Exactly how these reptiles detect and convert infrared signals into nerve ...

  • Experiments Show How Snakes See At Night (15 Mar 2010 21:42)

    ... Experiments Show How Snakes See At Night Posted on: Monday, 15 ... Scientists have known for decades that rattlesnakes, boas and pythons have pit organs between their ... remained a mystery to scientists how these reptiles have the ability to detect and convert ...

  • Scientists reveal how snakes `see` at night (15 Mar 2010 04:59)

    ... Sunday for the first time how some snakes can detect the faint body heat exuded ... has been known for decades that rattlesnakes, boas and pythons have so-called pit organs between ... kill prey blindfolded. But exactly how these reptiles detect and convert infrared signals into nerve ...

  • Gene That Lets Snakes See Heat Helps You Taste Wasabi (15 Mar 2010 17:57)

    ... and spicy on human tongues also let snakes “see” heat, explaining the remarkable ability of ... found between the eyes and nostrils of boa constrictors, pythons and pit vipers. These species ...

  • 'Wasabi' gene gives snakes night vision (14 Mar 2010 18:36)

    ... What does a rattlesnake's night vision have in common with the ... from objects at more than 27 C. Boas and pythons have similar molecules on their ...

  • Scientists reveal snake infrared detection (15 Mar 2010 08:40)

    ... March 15 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have discovered the receptors that allow snakes to find prey in the dark. Vipers, pythons and boas have holes on their faces called pit organs, which contain a membrane that can ...

see more newsletters

1-15/77 next next
image ad

Presswire

Press Release Distribution Service

see all press releases »

News publications

see all publications »