Snake

Delephinus always remained in bed after she'd awaken. Her pain from laying in an obscure position always filled her with regret the next morning. She undoubtedly knew experimenting with her body never left her with a satisfactory result. The soft sounds of waves crashing against the shore with the subtle vibrations of her ceiling fan greeted her with the thought of home. This was almost therapeutic until the realization that she would only be sulking in her room rather than adhering to her…

Water skimmer nymphs were collected in the littoral zone of the oxbow lake area at Howell Wetlands in Vanderburgh County on September 21st, 2017. The specimen was identified to the following taxonomic groups: Phylum Arthropoda Class Insecta Order Odonata Family Libellilidae Genus Sympetrum Identification of the specimen began by noticing an hour…

Boyd Hill Nature Preserve is now one of my favorite places in St. Petersburg! This field trip was a nice break from the fast-paced urban lifestyle that I have been living since moving away from home. Our excursion began at the bird-of-prey aviary. There were several types of birds at the aviary: eastern screech owls, turkey vultures, barred owls, great horned owls, and a bald eagle, to name a few. At the aviary, I learned that barred owls are best known for a call that sounds like, "Who cooks…

Do you think that you could fight of a dangerous reptile? Yeah same here. But in the stories “Sound of Thunder” and “Being Prey”. The character had to fight them off. Plumwood (The main character of “Being Prey”) fights a dangerous crocodile. Then Eckels (Main character of “Sound of Thunder”) had to go up against a dinosaur. If you want to know what happened then keep reading. The setting of the text are dangerous and deadly. The character didn’t listen to what the instructors had to say about…

Can you imagine buying a pet without researching anything about it? Well, that's what people in Florida are doing with their Burmese pythons. Burmese pythons are negatively affecting the ecosystem. The informational article states, "...they have chemical receptors in their tongues and heat sensors along their jaw so they can hunt at night." This shows that even if they can’t see they can still hunt with other parts of their bodies because they have special hunting tools to use. The newspaper…

Dendrobates tinctorius "azureus" is a medium-sized frog that weighs about 8 grams and grows to 3.0-4.5 cm in length. Females are larger and about half a centimeter longer than males, but males have larger toes. The frog has a typical lifespan of five to seven years in the wild. Its bright blue skin, usually darker around its limbs and stomach, serves as a warning to predators. The glands of poisonous alkaloids located in the skin serve as a defense mechanism to potential predators. These poisons…

Madison Reiter Hour 6-7 Character Analysis Paper In the dusty desert, of India lives a deadly cobra. In my ELA class we read a story called Rikki Tikki Tavi written by Rudyard Kipling. In the story, a little mongoose named Rikki Tikki Tavi, or for short Rikki Tikki, gets help from a family in India. Rikki Tikki then goes on an adventure throughout the garden and the house. He also protects the family throughout the dangers they come across, but then trouble comes. Nag and Nagaina are fighting…

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a deity, more specifically a Hindu deity? In the Hindu religion there are many deities that are praised upon, there are thousands of thousands of them. Being a deity sounds amazing right off the bat, but you don’t know how they look or their specific function is, so in this paper I will be talking about one of my favourite deities, Shiva the Destroyer. First off, Shiva the Destroyer is depicted with having a blue-painted throat. The blue throat…

This activity is one of the traditional games the Iroquois would play. The snow snake game was played in the winter, in an area with enough space, after the hunting men came back. The game would be a large celebration that the women and kids would get into as well. It could be comparable to football and baseball games because all the families and friends would come to cheer on their favorite player. Each player carved a piece of wood into a spear shape with a curved end. Then, the player would…

development of limbs; however, one species that is known to lack limb development is the snake species so that paper published by Kvon et al, investigates and tries to subside the debate over whether the sequence changes in non-coding regulatory DNA is the core driver of changes in the body shape in this species. In order to provide support for this dilemma, the researchers studied genomes of various snakes, both basal and advanced, to observe the evolutionary…