Tag: vipers

Researcher Steps on 100 Pit Vipers (For Science!)

The jararaca is one of South America’s most venomous snakes, so you probably want to avoid stepping on one at all costs. Unless you’re Joao Miguel Alves-Nunes, a biologist at Brazil’s Butantan Institute. In which case, your approach to studying jararacas’ biting behavior is to step on them (gently) 40,000 times. “The best way to […]

See Marines handle tarantulas and vipers to be ready to fight in the jungle

Thai and US Marines confronted deadly jungle creatures in survival training in Thailand. Exercise Cobra Gold demonstrated skills to Marines to help endure harsh jungle environments. Animal rights activists slammed the past exercises that involved Marines drinking cobra blood. US Marines came face-to-face with deadly jungle critters in a survival training in Thailand last month. […]