Results tagged “snake” on Earth Touch Blog
Flickr group: pic of the day – prairie rattlesnake May 21 2008
The prairie rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis), also known as a western rattlesnake or plains rattlesnake, is a venomous snake native to Canada, Mexico and the United States.
Tags: america, canada, central america, mexico, north america, prairie rattlesnake, rattlesnake, reptile, snake, united states, vertebrateHornbills feed in banyan tree May 12 2008
On a cool, breezy morning in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand, the Earth-Touch crew visited a banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) to watch birds and other wildlife feeding on the fruit.
Tags: banyan, bird, eagle, fig, forest, gibbon, hornbill, khao yai, mammal, monitor, pigeon, reptile, snake, thailand, treeFlickr pic of the day – green tree python Mar 14 2008
This green tree python (Morelia viridis) was one of the earliest submissions to our Flickr group by member Thor Hakonsen.
Tags: australasia, green, group, hunt, prey, python, snakeThe week’s most viewed stories Jan 29 2008
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 11 January to Thursday 17 January 2008) were:
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These predators patrol the waters constantly, looming powerfully into view with a steely sheen.
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african rock python, blyde canyon, fig tree, plant, python, reptile, snake, south africa
Python remains close to kill Dec 17 2007
There is lots of activity at a waterhole at Meno A Kwena camp in the Kalahari Desert of Botswana. Large animals like kudu and zebra can be seen, but also smaller creatures like the African rock python (Python natalensis), in the Earth-Touch clip, Python regurgitates bird.
This snake must have felt threatened in some way and had regurgitated its meal, a young African red-eyed bulbul (Pycnonotus nigricans). The snake had not yet begun to digest the bird, so the meal must have been recent.
Did you know? Pit vipers Nov 29 2007
Pit vipers, as their name suggests, have a heat-sensitive pit on either side of their head. These pits are extremely sensitive to changes in temperature, being covered with a temperature sensitive membrane.
These organs can help the pit viper sense the presence of warm-blooded animals, which is ultimately useful at night when these reptiles most often hunt for small animals such as frogs and lizards. They often form ‘S’-shapes with their body, enabling them to strike at any time.
Tags: asia, frog, hunt, lizard, membrane, pit viper, reptile, snake, thailand, thung salaeng luang national park, viper, warm-bloodedThe week’s most viewed stories Nov 23 2007
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 16 November to Thursday 22 November 2007) were:
The presence of frogs in the damp grass suggested that there might be snakes in the vicinity, and sure enough a young pit viper was soon spotted.
The week’s most viewed stories Nov 16 2007
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 09 November to Thursday 15 November 2007) were:
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Predators and prey share bat caveIt’s the circle of life: cockroaches feed on bat guano, spiders feed on cockroaches and snakes feed on bats.
Did you know? Pythons as incubators Oct 10 2007
Although snakes are cold-blooded creatures, the female southern African python (Python natalensis) is able to raise her body temperature and regulate it to within a few degrees of the required 30ºC (86ºF) throughout the incubation period of her eggs (65 to 80 days). During this time she seldom leaves the nest.
Did you know? Snakes Oct 5 2007
In our recent clip, Python regurgitates bird, we see an African rock python which has just regurgitated an African red-eyed bulbul. One reason snakes sometimes regurgitate food is to get away from a threatening situation quickly.
Living the hide life … is for the birds Oct 2 2007
By Graham Springer, field crew
I’ve been filming out of Nxamaseri for the past three weeks. The Nxamaseri Channel is a major tributary of the Okavango River, about halfway up the panhandle area of the Okavango Delta in Botswana.
Tags: basin, bird, chick, cubango river, cuito river, egg, hide, hippo, kalahari desert, monitor lizard, monkey, panhandle, papyrus, reed, reptile, sitatunga, snakeWildlife news from around the world
Eleven new species discovered Oct 1 2007
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has announced the discovery of 11 new species exclusive to Vietnam. They include a snake, two butterflies and five orchid varieties discovered in the Green Corridor, a lowland wet evergreen forest region in the Thua Thien Hue province.
Do or die? Sep 10 2007
By Andy Crawford, field crewNature is harsh. Sometimes exceedingly so. This is obvious to anyone who has seen the Earth-Touch video clip of the nesting skimmer colony in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, entitled Tension mounts on skimmer bank. The seemingly senseless killing of a two-day-old skimmer chick by an adult skimmer is difficult to watch, and even more difficult to comprehend. Since mentioning this incident to a few people, the question most often asked is, “Why didn’t the film crew help the chick?”
5 most popular Earth-Touch clips so far Sep 7 2007
1. Meerkats huddle in the cold
Oudtshoorn, South Africa > Meerkat
29 June, 2007
A group of suricates – more commonly known as meerkats – return from their daily forage to huddle together in the bitter cold, before disappearing into their burrow.
What’s in a name? Aug 31 2007
By Reina Luck, editorial team
One of the challenges the editorial team faces on a day-to-day basis is to get our heads around some of the strange and confusing names that we humans have given to the various species which our film crews encounter.
Tags: barbet, bird, black mamba, black-collared barbet, cowfish, crew, footage, malachite kingfisher, mamba, mudskipper, name, reptile, rubberlip, slimehead, snake, squirrelfish, trumpetfishTouching the Earth Aug 29 2007
By Tara Turkington, editorial team
It’ is winter and the sun is bathing the bush in an early-morning wash of light. We’’re bumping along slowly in our Volkswagen Combi on a dirt road near Berg-en-Dal in the Kruger National Park, when we see a long-legged dog running briskly towards us.
Donna Summer and the Anaconda Aug 7 2007
Photo: Dawson/Wikipedia
The search was on. We were scouting for an anaconda to film and the light – and our hopes – were fading fast. The day had been spent tracking and filming birds in the Pantanal in Brazil and we were now racing to reach an area in which anacondas had recently been seen. We were hurtling along a tooth-shattering and butt-bruising dirt road in a pickup. I was clutching the camera in the cab but my laptop was doing double half twist somersaults on the back
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