by Obiebi Enifome Sonia INTRODUCTION Snakes are elongated‚ legless‚ carnivorous reptiles of the suborder serpents that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. It is commonly believed that all snakes are venomous but that is an erroneous believes. Of all the 2700 known species of snakes only 300 are venomous. Most species are non venomous and those that have venom use it primarily to kill and subdue prey rather than for self defense. Some posses venom
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The television show I’m Alive‚ episode “Ambushed” makes viewers re-think holding a snake without it being identified by an expert. A biology teacher told her students that they could find animals in the wild‚ bring them into school‚ and she would identify them. In their classroom‚ there were turtles‚ spiders‚ frogs‚ snakes‚ and more. The teacher told the students that they could hold any of the animals that they wanted to without permission. Rusty Van Wert and Caleb Snow went over to a terrarium
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SNAKE BITES VENOM AND ANTI-VENOM Snake venom is modified saliva and is produced by modified saliva glands. Venoms are rich in hydrolithic enzymes‚ a complex mix of polypeptides‚ nucleases‚ peptidases‚ etc.‚ which help digest the snake’s prey. Some of them also enhance or contribute to the toxic effect of the venom. As early as 1949 it was shown that an enzyme from the Bothrops species produces a vasodilation resulting from the production of a hypotensor neuropeptide‚ bradykinin. This had important
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Background This profile envisages the establishment of a snake farm for the production of venom with a capacity of 100 gm per annum. The present demand for the proposed product is estimated at 5‚500 kg per annum. The demand is expected to reach at 11‚434 kg by the year 2022. The plant will create employment opportunities for 27 persons. Venom is a poison of animal origin usually restricted to poisons that are administered
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Bob was walking in the woods one day when his life was put in great danger. He had just stepped over a log when he felt a sharp sting on the back of his leg. He looked down and saw two small puncture wounds on his leg. The stinging sensation instantly went throughout his body and that was when he saw a snake still laying beside the log he had just stepped over. Bob had many questions running through his snakes With it’s long slender body the snake’s probably the funniest shaped creature you will
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The duality of the last part in the poem - where he reflects on the pettiness of his actions - can be seen as a result of the contrast between a crisis response which is ‘appropriate’ (attacking the snake as education and social convention would prescribe)‚ and a crisis response which is ‘manly‚’ that is allowing the snake freedom to traverse the area and leave in peace. His poem manages to combine subtle observations of a short‚ tension-filled drama with the insights of a moral thinker and writer
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Nuggets Brush with Death It was Anzac day in 2017‚ and we just arrived home from marching in the Anzac parade in Albany. My Nan was outside and my Mum was inside when all of a sudden my Nan started yelling “snake‚ Jodie help‚ snake”. My mum ran outside to where my Nan and our dog Nugget were‚ she saw a tiger snake rearing up at Nugget and striking him on the face. Nugget grabbed the snake through it up in the air‚ as the snake hit the ground it bit Nugget again. Mum and Nan were both yelling at
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Intro “Each year around 1 million people world wide are bitten by snakes‚ and around 30‚000 to 40‚000 of the snake bite victims die from the venomous injection of a venomous snake. Of the 2‚000 species of snakes‚ about 400 are venomous. The cobra‚ coral snake‚ and rattlesnake are common examples of venomous snakes.” (Snake2). Knowing this information and more can possibly save yours or somebody else’s life when put into a situation when you have been bitten by a snake and can’t identify it
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WILDLIFE PROTECTION ACT INTRODUCTION The wild life laws have a long history and is the culminative result of an increasing awareness of the compelling need to restore the catastrophic ecological imbalances introduced by the depridations inflicted on nature by human being. The earliest codified law can be traced to 3rd Centuary B.C. when Ashoka‚ the King of Maghadha‚ enacted a law in the matter of preservation of wild life and environment. But‚ the first codified law in India which heralded the
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