FER-DE-LANCE

fĕrˌ-də-lănsˈ, highly poisonous snake, Bothrops atrox, found in tropical South America and the West Indies. A pit viper, related to the bushmaster and the rattlesnake, it has heat-sensitive organs on the head for detecting its warm-blooded prey. Usually about 5 to 6 ft (150–180 cm) long, the fer-de-lance may reach a maximum length of about 9 ft (3 m). It is gray or brown with light stripes and dark diamond markings and has a yellow throat. Common throughout most of its range, it causes many human fatalities. It is classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Reptilia, order Squamata, family Crotalidae.

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books on: Fer De Lance  - 152 results

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1.
Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology
Book by Lance Day, Ian Mcneil; Routledge, 1998
Subjects: Inventions--History--Dictionaries, Inventors--Biography--Dictionaries, Technology--History--Dictionaries
...The Tallest Tower: Eiffel and the Belle Epoque , Boston: Hough ton Mifflin. F. Poncetton, 1939, Eiffel: Le Magicien du Fer , Paris: Tournelle. DY Einthoven, Willem b. 21 May 1860 Semarang, Java d. 28 September 1927 Leiden, the Netherlands Dutch...
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Characters and Events of Roman History: From Caesar to Nero
Book by Guglielmo Ferrero, Frances Lance Ferrero; Chautauqua Press, 1917
Subjects: Rome--History--The Five Julii, 30 B.C.-68 A.D
...France now, was endowed with several requisites essential to its becoming a nation of great economic development: a land very fer tile; a population dense for the times, intelligent, wide-awake, active; a climate that, even though it seemed to Greeks...
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The Death and Life of Drama: Reflections on Writing and Human Nature
Book by Lance Lee; University of Texas Press, 2005
Subjects: Motion Picture Authorship, Playwriting
...Book still thinks he is in control and that his sense of time as his own and now are the true state of affairs. But Schaef- fer arranges for McFee to try and kill Book, once he is sure Book has told no one else of his suspicions. Now Books eyes are open...
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International Wildlife Encyclopedia - Vol. 6
Book by Maurice Burton, Robert Burton; Marshall Cavendish, 2002
Subjects: Zoology--Dictionaries
...grasped the fer de lance just behind the...its mouth over the fer de lances head and slowly...mussurana over the fer de lance is shown by the...8-m) fer de lance. Mongooses that...harvested, while fer de lances were making the...
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The Maya Tropical Forest: People, Parks, and Ancient Cities
Book by James D. Nations; University of Texas Press, 2006
Subjects: Human Ecology--Yucataan Peninsula, Mayas--Ethnobotany, Mayas--Ethnozoology, Rain Forest Ecology--Yucataan Peninsula, Yucataan Peninsula--Environmental Aspects
...The most deadly of these pit vipers is the fer-de-lance (Bothrops asper), known in Guatemala as...and Calakmul. The Lacand6n Maya call the fer-de-lance hach kan, the true snal<e: The fer-de-lance has large fangs and strong...
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journal articles on: Fer De Lance  - 53 results

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La Religion, Fer De Lance De L'aide Aux Demunis Dans la Communaute Protestante Montrealaise Au [XIX.Sup.E
Journal article by Janice Harvey; Vol. 73, 2007
Subjects: Christianity--History, Christianity--Religious aspects, Christianity--Social aspects, Protestants--History, Protestants--Religious aspects, Protestants--Social aspects, Social networks--History
La Religion, Fer De Lance De Laide Aux Demunis Dans la Communaute Protestante Montrealaise Au...camp etait situe dans un ancien camp forestier accessible par chemin de fer. OBM papers, Fresh Air Camp, Old Brewery Mission Inc.; History...
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Breves Remarques Sur le Travail Comme Vecteur De la Citoyennete [*
Journal article by Jacques Hamel; Vol. 38, 2001
Subjects: Anthropological research--Analysis, Work--Philosophy
...certes concu comme action productive mais egalement comme fer de lance du droit de cite. Trois perspectives sont abordees A...1995 : 18). Le travail est, en dautres mots, le fer de lance de lexperience humaine. Il en constitue lessence meme...
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L'economie Des Quebecois Francophones a la Lumiere De la Socio-Anthropologie
Journal article by Jacques Hamel; The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 34, 1997
Subjects: Historical sociology--Analysis
...lanthropologie francaise par lappel que lance Maurice Godelier lors du colloque...meme des entreprises qui sont le fer de lance des societes avancees de leconomie...constituent chez les francophones le fer de lance par lequel ils peuvent etablir leur...
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A Current Bibliography of Canadian Religious history/Bibliographie Recente D'historie Religuese Du Canada
Journal article; Historical Studies, Vol. 74, 2008
Subjects: Canadian history--Bibliography, Religion--Bibliography, Religion--Historiography, Religious history--Bibliography
...Press, 2004. 493 p., ill. Roberts, Lance W. et ai. Recent Social Trends in Canada...SA/VA: 02) Clavette. 03) Beaman; Lance. 04) MacDonald. 08) Gendron. 09...Harvey, Janice. << La religion, fer de lance de laide aux demunis dans la communaute...
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L'Eglise Catholique, Acteur De la Francophonie En Amerique Du Nord L'exemple De la Culture Acadienne Du Traite De Paris (1763) a Nos Jours
Journal article by Gwenael Lamarque; Historical Studies, Vol. 74, 2008
Subjects: Acadians--Religious aspects, Acadians--Terminology, Canadian French--Religious aspects, Catholics--Terminology, French language in Canada--Religious aspects, French-Canadian dialect--Religious aspects, Roman Catholics--Terminology
...meme temps. Elle devient ainsi le fer de lance des revendications acadiennes en...celebre une messe inaugurale, qui lance par la meme occasion une grande tradition...comme le Moniteur Acadien (20), lance a Shediac en 1867, mais aussi LEvangeline...
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magazine articles on: Fer De Lance  - 20 results

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Monkeys, Mangoes, and Machetes
Magazine article by Julie Lancaster; Mothering, January 2010
Subjects: Adventure, Costa Rica, Families & family life, Farms, Travel
...grounds safe. We I kept pathways free of debris to encourage all surprise visitors - including extremely venomous fer- de-lance snakes and poison-dart frogs - to do their visiting elsewhere. While walking, Mark and I always kept a pace or...
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Secret Citadel of the Last Inca: Lured by History and Myth This Author Trekked through Dense Peruvian Jungle to a Remote Stronghold Once Occupied by Manco Inca
Magazine article by Ricardo Carrasco Stuparich; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 54, September 2002
Subjects: Incas--Religion and mythology, Peru--History, South American native peoples--History
...the Spanish invaders. At that time, arrows, clubs, and lances were the weapons used by Inca warriors. Amid the bonfires...venomous snakes are native to this area, among them the feared fer-de-lance. Gradually, there emerge before our eyes houses and more...
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Amazon Adventure: A-Level Student Oliver Russell Recounts His Incredible Expedition into the Amazon Rainforest on a Conservation Exercise-His Prize for Winning the 2007 Geographical Young Geographer of the Year Competition
Magazine article; Geographical, Vol. 80, January 2008
Subjects: Geographers--Travel, Russel, Oliver--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Russel, Oliver--Travel, Scientific expeditions
...is no arachnophobe) and several of the group were bitten by ants. But these posed little threat compared with the fer-de-lance, a rather large venomous snake whose bite is potentially lethal. When one was spotted, recalls Oliver, the park...
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Expedition to the Clouds
Magazine article by Michael Tennesen; International Wildlife, Vol. 28, March 1998
Subjects: Peru--Plants and animals, Wildlife conservation--Peru
...and spring-loaded mouse traps every 9 meters (30 ft.) or so. Mindful of warnings about the presence here of fer-de-lance, deadly, aggressive South American vipers, I generally stay out in the open. The two women, however, stow their...
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Sea Kings of the Antilles
Magazine article by Peter Muilenberg; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 44, July 1992
Subjects: Caribs--History
...violent Carib raid of the mainland, outraged Arawaks in the Orinoco delta gathered baskets full of deadly poisonous fer-de-lance vipers and carried them in dugouts up to the islands of St. Lucia and Martinique. Here they disembarked the squirming...
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newspaper articles on: Fer De Lance  - 21 results

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Tab Dividends
Newspaper article; The Daily Mercury (Mackay, Australia), June 9, 2011
...3,548.80. Scr: 3,4,9,11. Race 3: 11 Fer De Lance $7.60 $2.00 2 Irazu $1.80 4 Irish Charmer...557.00. Scr: 6,7,8,14. EXTRA DOUBLE: 11 Fer De Lance 5 Dance With Her $21.70. OCF: 4 Irish Charmer 5...
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Tab Dividends
Newspaper article; The Daily Mercury (Mackay, Australia), July 9, 2010
...6 1 5 4): $4,297.80. Scr: 7. Race 8: 1 Quick Bond $4.30 $2.00 6 Sentimental Jeuney $2.80 13 Fer De Lance $7.90. Q: $22.40. E: $41.00. T: $850.50. A2: 1-6 $9.50, 1-13 $29.00, 6-13 $46.10...
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KING OF THE JUNGLE; He Was Almost Murdered by Natives, Ate Piranhas - and Kept Himself Sane by Dreaming of Mr Kipling French Fancies. the Rip-Roaring Story of the British Army Officer Who Became the First Man to Walk the Amazon
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 28, 2011
Subjects: Armies--Officials and employees, Army officers
...another tribe, or a jaguar will eat you. Once, Cho called a halt and pointed at something in the undergrowth. A deadly fer de lance (pit viper) was coiled and ready to strike. Just one bite makes you bleed from your hair follicles, eyes, ears...
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Moonee Valley Comment Continued
Newspaper article; The Chronicle (Toowoomba, Australia), November 18, 2011
...dead trk May 21, then spelled after settled at the tail and plodded past a few late for 4-1/4 len 5th (65.0) Fer De Lance 3000m M Valley Hwt (82) heavy trk June 8. Fitter for four recent trials including hd win Riddick, Sands Like A Party...
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Bob Shields; BUNGLE IN THE JUNGLE
Newspaper article by Bob Shields; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), August 21, 1996
...says the guide book. But it doesnt tell which nine! Numero uno, bad honcho of the slithery department is the Fer De Lance - a snake with a bite that could bring down a government. And just to make things interesting, they are green - very...
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encyclopedia articles on: Fer De Lance  - 5 results

 
 
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Fer-De-Lance
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FER-DE-LANCE fer -d -lans , highly poisonous snake, Bothrops atrox, found in tropical...warm-blooded prey. Usually about 5 to 6 ft (150 180 cm) long, the fer-de-lance may reach a maximum length of about 9 ft (3 m). It is gray...
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Snake , in Zoology
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...poisonous New World snakes belong to the pit viper family; these include the copperhead , water moccasin , rattlesnake , fer-de-lance, and bushmaster . Venomous Old World snakes are the true vipers , including the adder and the asp , and members of...
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Pit Viper
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...is the rattlesnake genus Crotalus, found in North, Central, and N South America. Other New World forms are the fer-de-lance (genus Bothrops ) and the bushmaster (genus Lachesis ). The genus Ancistrodon includes the copperhead and water...
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Viper
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...whose bite is often fatal. The pit vipers of the Americas, including the rattlesnake , copperhead , water moccasin , fer-de-lance , and bushmaster , are classified in a separate family. Vipers are classified in the phylum Chordata , subphylum...
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Venom
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...perforate the blood vessels, causing hemorrhage, and hemolysins dissolve the red blood cells. The venom of the fer-de-lance is chiefly hemotoxic; that of the rattlesnake, the copperhead, and the moccasin is both hemotoxic and hemolytic...


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