Bites from spitting cobras can cause significant health issues and even death, and the antivenoms currently in use don’t effectively treat the local tissue damage caused by these venoms. These antivenoms also need to be kept cool and given in a medical facility, making them …
NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA: This is an example of zoonosis which is a health problem of increasing concern for humans. A zoonosis is an infectious disease that has jumped from a non-human animal to humans. In this instance the disease takes the form of an endoparasite …
NEWS AND COMMENT-Texas, USA: Peggy Jones, 64, feels that she is lucky to be alive after – in a very strange and unusual incident – she was attacked by both a snake and a hawk simultaneously. She was mowing her backyard lawn. Something very normal …
NEWS AND VIEWS: How often do you see a brightly coloured, exotic snake slithering around the passenger compartment of a commuter train in Yorkshire, UK? Never is the answer until yesterday when passengers switched carriages after a 5-foot corn snake was spotted slithering over the …
In combining two stories about reticulated pythons, I have come to the conclusion that this species of snake can behave and sound like a cat! The Guinness World Record’s longest snake in captivity is Medusa, a reticulated python. They say it purrs like a snake …
Some king cobra stuff for aficionados starting with a video of an impressive king cobra doing his defensive threat display in a video standing around 6 feet tall. The king cobra is one of the most venomous snakes on the planet. As you can …
When watching the video, it took me a little while to understand that this was a real snake. The markings on the snake and the way it moves in a straight line and slowly gave me the impression that this was a toy of some …
MANDYA, KARNATAKA, INDIA: The snake has possibly come into the city during the monsoons because their burrow has filled up with water. Its colour is the same as the flagstones and steps. The mother and her child exit the building. The child would have stepped …
Described as crazy, I think it is. The snake looks amazing. The man looks stupid. He’s trying to be macho for the camera it seems to me. People do a lot of crazy stuff for the camera nowadays as it is become awful competitive on …
