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...island of Queimada Grande, off the coast of southeastern Brazil, is the kingdom of a snake called Bothrops insularis. Pit vipers related to rattlesnakes but much more poisonous, they swarm in the undergrowth, festoon the trees. They are found nowhere else in all the world, and their control of the mile-long island has not been contested since 1921, when the Brazilian government withdrew its lighthouse keepers after snakes had killed three of them and the wife of a fourth. They seem to live an ideal life, with plenty of sea birds to prey upon and no enemies...
...York regularly include the bald eagle, who rides the ice floes down the Hudson as far as Dyckman Street. Muskrat houses can be found in the lower end of the Van Cortlandt swamp; the eastern cottontail is common in the fields and thickets of Staten Island; the northern brown snake inhabits Central Park...
...definition, it was no news when a snake bit a man in St. Joseph, Mo. a fortnight ago, and little more newsworthy when, thanks to antisnakebite serum, the man recovered. But last week the snake made news: it died as a result of the bite it had inflicted...
...Indian hooded cobra, it bit the hand of William White. 32, a professional snake handler in a reptile garden. Serum flown from Miami by Air Force jet saved White. But the cobra's fangs were loosened by the heavy burlap bag through which it struck, and its jaw was dislocated when White jerked his hand away. Infection of the injured mouth killed the snake...
...Enemy Ground. In Rio de Janeiro, Humberto Meneses Cotrim bit a snake that bit him, survived while the snake died...