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(Reuters)   Today's headline: Doctoral student trying to keep rattlesnakes from being run over in Canada. Tomorrow's headline: Doctoral student bit by ungrateful rattlesnake   (news.yahoo.com) divider line
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gopher321 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-08-10 10:21:03 PM  
" The snakes move onto roads looking for safety, food, mates and the heat absorbed by the asphalt. However, when a vehicle approaches the snakes don't move.

They coil themselves up in a defensive posture and the rattlers shake their tails to warn off the danger.

It's a strategy that has served them well for millions of years but is of little use in fending off a truck."

Evolution's a biatch, ain't it?
 
darkhorse23 [OhFark]
2008-08-11 12:24:25 AM  
.....you knew I was a snake when you picked me up.

//if you don't know that old fairy tale, you need to find it and remember the moral.
 
hitmanric
2008-08-11 1:04:50 AM  
We have rattlesnakes?
 
Tr0mBoNe [TotalFark]
2008-08-11 1:06:22 AM  

hitmanric: We have rattlesnakes?


Exactly, eh?
 
hitmanric
2008-08-11 1:06:44 AM  
*checks article* Ohhhhh, southern Alberta. Good! All I have to worry about is garter snakes.
 
Wareq
2008-08-11 1:07:10 AM  
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worlddan
2008-08-11 1:08:43 AM  

gopher321: " The snakes move onto roads looking for safety, food, mates and the heat absorbed by the asphalt. However, when a vehicle approaches the snakes don't move.

They coil themselves up in a defensive posture and the rattlers shake their tails to warn off the danger.

It's a strategy that has served them well for millions of years but is of little use in fending off a truck."

Evolution's a biatch, ain't it?


That was and has been my reaction also.

I live in a rattlesnake heavy area. About a week ago there was a baby rattler in the middle of the road. I did everything I could think of to try and get it to move. But every time I got close it would coil up and strike. It's sad, really, because they don't stand a chance. Lots of dead bodies on the road. If this guy can find a way to help them, more power to him.
 
Noodly Appendage
2008-08-11 1:56:51 AM  
Favorite snake bite ever. (Dirty Jobs)

I could watch that on a loop.
 
wildcardjack
2008-08-11 2:17:22 AM  
Rattle Snakes in Canada...

Are you in FAVOR of global warming?

/knows nothing of the natural range of rattlers
//but loves that chickeny flavor at harvest time
 
Hal5423
2008-08-11 2:21:25 AM  
From TFA "Martinson, a University of Calgary student working on a Masters degree..."

:.Not a doctoral student.

Subby should learn the difference.

/incoming doctoral student
 
lasercannon
2008-08-11 2:48:20 AM  

darkhorse23: .....you knew I was a snake when you picked me up.

//if you don't know that old fairy tale, you need to find it and remember the moral.


It is a fable not a fairy tale. Very similar to the frog and scorpion fable.
 
PokeyMon
2008-08-11 2:57:22 AM  
Pit vipers and sharks and politicians are of the same ilk.
All lack compassion..... and in one case, condoms.....
 
Galaxy of Prawns
2008-08-11 3:01:33 AM  
WATCH OUT FOR SNAKES!
 
whereisian
2008-08-11 3:21:03 AM  

wildcardjack: Are you in FAVOR of global warming?


Wait until you find out that there is a desert in Canada.

I guess you just found out.
 
socodog
2008-08-11 4:40:03 AM  
I'm from West Texas - home of many rattle snakes. To my experience and from everything I've heard, it's very difficult to kill a rattlesnake by running it over at ANY speed. You gotta slam on the brakes and skid over it to do any harm.
 
angrygrizzly
2008-08-11 4:53:58 AM  
The snakes move onto roads looking for safety, food, mates and the heat absorbed by the asphalt. However, when a vehicle approaches the snakes don't move.

They coil themselves up in a defensive posture and the rattlers shake their tails to warn off the danger.

It's a strategy that has served them well for millions of years but is of little use in fending off a truck.

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Woo, that's an elusive little creature.
 
1. Put snakes on plane
2008-08-11 7:16:16 AM  

Noodly Appendage: Favorite snake bite ever. (Dirty Jobs)

I could watch that on a loop.


A barehanded grab? That's not a good way to pick up snakes.
 
TheGreyPiper
2008-08-11 9:24:57 AM  

whereisian: wildcardjack: Are you in FAVOR of global warming?

Wait until you find out that there is a desert in Canada.

.....


OMG it's worse than we imagined!!1!
 
haliphax
2008-08-11 10:26:54 AM  

darkhorse23: .....you knew I was a snake when you picked me up.

//if you don't know that old fairy tale, you need to find it and remember the moral.


...or watch "natural born killers" again.
 
skink
2008-08-11 10:50:05 AM  
"Tomorrow's headline: Doctoral student bit by ungrateful rattlesnake..."

Or run the fark over by ungrateful Canadian.

/Not Canadian
//Just living here
 
Oobleck
2008-08-11 4:44:55 PM  
Today's headline: Doctoral student trying to keep rattlesnakes from being run over in Canada. Tomorrow's headline: Doctoral student bit by ungrateful rattlesnake, then run over by truck.

ftfs
 
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