Word: snaked
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...while seeking the cause of yellow fever in Africa, appeared last week.* It uncloaks the tumultuous little scientist, of whom only intimate friends knew more than that he was born in 1876 to a Japanese peasant, that he eventually reached the U. S. where he produced important discoveries on snake venoms, syphilis, infantile paralysis, rabies, smallpox, yellow fever, that nations gave him kudos...
...Raymond Lee Ditmars, famed herpetologist of New York City's Bronx Zoo, widened the eyes of a St. Louis audience last week with stories of a snake that can fly. It is the rare, seldom captured Chrysopelea ornata of India and Malaya, a black snake with a yellow dot in the centre of each scale and a series of yellow, red centred "flowers" along the back. These snakes climb trees, fling themselves off and by extending their ribs and sucking in their bellies, create air pockets on which they glide safely to the ground...
...Wisconsin Legislature last week passed a bill requiring that, to collect the State's bounty of 50? per rattlesnake, snake-hunters must produce not only the rattle but at least one-half of the rattlesnake. Occasion for the measure was a racket: hunters were cutting off rattles, turning snakes loose to grow more. More dangerous than rattling rattlesnakes are de-rattled, silent rattlesnakes...
Demands for his protection brought forth numerous writers who pointed out that while kookaburra had been observed to seize a snake in his beak, fly with it to a great height and drop it,* there was no certainty the snake was a live one or that this was kooka's method of snakassination or that kooka was doing anything but playing...
...constrictor. It had been Siemel's idea that one of these monsters, which reach a length of 30 ft., could be taken alive by loop-ended poles in the hands of a half-dozen men. Newell and the Indian sought to make a capture alone, but their snake writhed and lashed so powerfully that, in order to protect their own lives, they had to kill...