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Reprieve for Eastern Rattlers
The Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake is a venomous snake found throughout the Southeastern United States – southeast North Carolina to Florida, the Florida Keys, southern Mississippi and eastern Louisiana and Georgia. They live in swamps, forests and prairies. As the largest rattlesnake species, the Eastern Diamondback is 3 1/2 – 5 1/2 feet long full grown. […]
Dog Breeding
When dogs were first domesticated in prehistoric times, humans encouraged the survival of certain types of dogs by feeding and caring for the ones that were useful to them, and killing or neglecting the others. As a result, certain dog types emerged. People encouraged these distinctions by mating dogs of a certain type with each […]