Poison snakes swarm Florida Island


	Poison snakes swarm Florida Island

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4-21-2007 12:27 AM

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        A venomous cottonmouth snake displays its namesake white mouth as a scientist prepares to capture it on Florida's Seahorse Key in November 2006.
The tiny island on the Gulf Coast is renowned among researchers for its teeming numbers of poisonous snakes. 
About 600 vipers slither around the 165-acre (67-hectare) island—in some areas with an average of 22 cottonmouths on every palm tree-covered acre. <BR /></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/photogalleries/snakes/index.html">
The secret to the snakes' success, Lillywhite believes, is Seahorse Key's other inhabitants—tens of thousands of birds that nest there from spring to fall. <BR />
The snakes aren't eating the birds, the scientist says—instead they live almost exclusively on the huge amounts of dead fish that the birds drop, vomit, and excrete every year. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BFE7FD83-4ECC-4B29-BF2E-32AFF6C1A370/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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