Ground Squirrels Chew Snakeskins to Mask Their Scent
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This eau de snake  acts as camouflage, covering up the squirrelâs own scent so a meal-seeking rattlesnake will leave it alone.
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A toad-eating Asian snake stores up toxins from its amphibian meals&#8212;and then tempts predators to attack, new research shows.
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ST. LOUIS - There's a definite down side to swiping a two-headed albino rat snake: There's no good way to disguise the stolen goods...
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Squirrels, pigeons and mice -- Wimbledon's Centre Court has attracted a menagerie of animals over the years who brought many a tense match to a halt with their unwelcome intrusions.
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The slender brown-and-yellow Butler's garter snake is a mild-mannered creature that spends its time sheltering in burrows and eating earthworms. But it has sparked a heated dispute between the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and state legislators.
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In Evangeline Parish, La., squirrel season's opening celebrates and preserves a distinct Cajun custom.
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London - British pigeon fanciers are developing methods to make their birds taste so awful that peregrine falcons in the wild are put off preying on them, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
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Squirrels, pigeons and mice -- Wimbledon&#39;s Centre Court has attracted a menagerie of animals over the years who brought many a tense match to a halt with their unwelcome intrusions.
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By Pete Zimowsky, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Feb. 21--Yip. Yip. Yip. Howl. It's nice to be serenaded to sleep by coyotes.
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The fossilized neck bones of a 230-million-year-old sea creature have features suggesting that the animal&#39;s snakelike throat could flare open and create suction that would pull in prey.
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PHILADELPHIA - A man said he got quite a surprise when he sat down to eat a side of green beans, only to find a snake head had come out of the can.
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Darpa is studying squirrels' hibernation tactics to learn how they regulate their core body temp -- if soldiers could master it, they might survive heavy bleeding. In Danger Room.
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New Yorkers are used to seeing rats where they catch their trains &#151; not where they buy their burritos. About a dozen rats were having a grand party Friday in a locked KFC/Taco Bell restaurant, scampering around the floor, playing with each other and sniffing for food as they dashed around tables and children's high chairs.
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A farming co-op in the Netherlands has asked the ministry of agriculture to authorize the use of spicy tabasco sauce to protect their young crops from the insatiable appetites of hares, rabbits, crows and pigeons.
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CARMEL, Calif. - When raccoons attack! It may sound like a bad idea for a TV show, but it's reality for Carmel residents who feel besieged by an invasion of aggressive raccoons...
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A clever species of owl, baits its lair with dung to attract tasty beetles. The burrowing owl has long been known for its preference for dung beetles; the insect accounts for nearly two-thirds of the bird&#39;s diet.
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A group of Western county commissioners who have problems with the Endangered Species Act has petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to have the northern snakehead, an Asian fish that's invaded the East, protected under the act.