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A hibernaculum (plural form: hibernacula) (Latin, "tent for winter quarters") is a place in which an animal seeks refuge, such as a bear using a cave to overwinter.The word can be used to describe a variety of shelters used by many kinds of animals, including insects, toads, lizards, snakes, bats, rodents, and primates of various species.
The name is thought to be derived from Persian language — a conjunction of mâr (مار, "snake, serpent") and the suffix khor (خور, "-eater"), interpreted to represent the animal's alleged ability to kill snakes, or as a reference to its corkscrew-like horns, which are somewhat reminiscent of coiling snakes. [7]
Full-size snow snakes at Ganondagan State Historic Site. The poles used in the game, collectively known as "snow snakes", have different names depending on their length. The smallest poles used are the six-inch-long "snow darts". [1] The next size up is the three-foot-long "short snake", [4] also known as a "mud cat". [3]
American kestrels feed largely on small animals such as grasshoppers, [37] crickets, butterflies, moths, [38] dragonflies, beetles, [39] lizards, mice, voles, shrews, frogs, [38] and small birds. The kestrel has also been reported to have killed scorpions , snakes , [ 40 ] bats , [ 41 ] and squirrels . [ 42 ]
Where do South Carolina snakes go during the winter months? Here’s what to know.
Kills the snakes on the path to the afterlife & aid heroes on quests. Vermilion Bird ; Piasa (American) Based on monster depicted on real Illinois rock painting on the Mississippi River and a local native word for Thunderbird, but the Piasa itself is uniquely an American creation. The painting actually originally depicted an Underwater Panther.
Snakes may take to burrowing in holes or caves, under logs or rocks, in tree stumps, or by making their way into basements, crawlspaces, garages, barns, sheds, wood piles and even car engines.
Bücherl states that venomous animals must possess at least one venom gland, a mechanism for excretion or extrusion of the venom, and apparatus with which to inflict wounds. Mebs writes that venomous animals produce venom in a group of cells or gland, and have a tool, the venom apparatus, which delivers the venom by injection during a bite or ...