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As I have previously documented elsewhere, the West has a fetish for exporting its LGBTQ+++™ Social Justice™ ideology all throughout the world — whether its inhabitants want it or not....
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These Snakes Found a New Way to Slither The novel technique is great news for Guam’s brown tree snakes, bad news for the island’s nesting birds. The brown tree snake was introduced accidentally to Guam in the 1940s, decimating the population of native birds, including Micronesian starlings.Credit...Bjorn Lardner, United States Geological Survey By Sabrina Imbler Published Jan. 11, 2021Updated Jan. 12, 2021 In 2016, on the northern tip of Guam, two biologists, Tom Seibert and Julie Savidge, challenged several brown tree snakes to a battle of wits. The arena: a concrete pen with a narrow me...
Snakes do a lot more than slither. Some swim, while others sidewind across sand ( SN: 6/29/20). But no one has ever seen a snake move the way that brown tree snakes do when they climb certain trees. By wrapping its tail around a tree or pole in a lasso-like grip and wriggling to propel itself, a brown tree snake can shimmy up structures that would otherwise be too wide to climb. Better understanding how brown tree snakes ( Boiga irregularis) get around could inform strategies to control their population in Guam, where the snakes are an invasive species. The reptiles are infamous for having wi...