Old rattlesnake research gains new bite, with the news reports of a man who decapitated a rattlesnake, and then was bitten by the detorsoed snake head [“Texas Man’s Near-Fatal Lesson: A Decapitated Snake Can Still Bite” — New York Times]. The most pertinently focussed study was published almost 20 years ago: “Envenomations by Rattlesnakes Thought to […]
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The Case of the Decapitated Canary
Kees Moeliker, discoverer of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck, together with several other guests on a Dutch TV program discusses the curious case of the decapitated canary: