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Birds Drape Snake Skin Over Their Nests To Keep Predators Away From Their Babies

One defense strategy that birds might employ involves draping their nests with snake skin. This tactic helps keep predators ...
Science Daily

Cavity-nesting birds decorate with snake skin to deter predators

When a bird drapes its nest with snake skin, it isn't just making an interesting decor choice. Researchers find that for some birds, it keeps predators at bay. When a bird drapes its nest with snake ...
AOL

A Snake-Infested Volcanic Island: Discover “The Biggest Rattlesnake Nest in The World”

The RattleCam is back! For the second year in a row, California Polytechnic State University and Dickinson College are live streaming a massive prairie rattlesnake den. The mega-den, which is located ...
Psychology Today

Birds Hiss Like Snakes to Protect Nests

Source: Francis C. Franklin, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC-BY-SA-3.0 license. In what’s referred to as Batesian mimicry, harmless species can protect themselves from predators by ...
The Daily Sentinel

ET study shows rat snakes primary culprits in quail nest depredation

A bobwhite quail translocation study currently underway on private property in Polk County has shown some promising results and interesting findings regarding predation of active nests this year, ...