Snakes dispersal

Subsequent investigation into what features might distinguish the femur from Burial 8 initially foeused on the mineral fraction of a selection of Snake Hill femora. Energy dispersive x-ray microanalysis (JEOL JSM-35C SEM equipped with a TN-5500 X-ray analyzer) demonstrated consistent calcium to... 

Dispersal of three species of snakes from a hibemaculum in Utah was observed by Hirth et al. (1969), who used a 400- JiCi Ta tag. The wire tag was inserted beneath the skin in the ventral basal tail segment, using the procedure of Breckenridge and Tester (1961). A total of 196 snakes were tagged after emergence. Tagged snakes could be detected at a distance of 9 m on the surface and 30 cm below the surface at a distance of 3 m. Radiation-produced necrosis was observed on some of the snakes. 

A consideration of the dispersion/flocculation model suggests that during flocculation parts of the polymer matrix can no longer be adsorbed on the surface of the conductivity phase but act as a connecting sleeve that surrounds the particles, like the skin of a snake that has swallowed a number of golf balls (as shown later in Figs. 19.39 and 19.40). 

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