﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>rattlesnake news stories on Newser</title><description>Read more rattlesnake stories on Newser</description><link>http://www.newser.com/taggrid/9279/rattlesnake.html</link><image><url>http://img1-cdn.newser.com/images/newser-black250x40.gif</url><title>rattlesnake news stories on Newser</title><link>http://www.newser.com/</link></image><copyright>2012 - Newser</copyright><language>en-us</language><generator>Newser Feed Generator</generator><pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 11:38:03 CDT</pubDate><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/31840/rattler-strikes-shopper-at-fla-wal-mart.html</guid><title>Rattler Strikes Shopper at Fla. Wal-Mart</title><dc:creator>Dustin Lushing</dc:creator><description>&lt;img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=117969&amp;width=45&amp;height=45&amp;crop=Y&amp;updateddate=20110401010703' border='0' /&gt;A Florida man has been released from the hospital after being bitten in the hand by a poisonous pygmy rattlesnake while browsing in a Wal-Mart garden department, the Miami Herald reports. Though potentially deadly to a child or elderly person, the bite "wouldn't have been fatal with an adult male....</description><media:content url="http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=117969&amp;width=45&amp;height=45&amp;crop=Y&amp;updateddate=20110401010703" type="image/jpg" medium="image"><media:description type="plain">A timber rattlesnake sits coiled on section of a trail in Mountaintown, Ga., </media:description></media:content><link>http://www.newser.com/story/31840/rattler-strikes-shopper-at-fla-wal-mart.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:18:55 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/5837/hot-mommas-squirrels-use-heat-to-scare-off-snakes.html</guid><title>Hot Mommas: Squirrels Use Heat to Scare off Snakes</title><dc:creator>Heather McPherson</dc:creator><description>&lt;img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=19536&amp;width=45&amp;height=45&amp;crop=Y&amp;updateddate=20110401033148' border='0' /&gt;Squirrels aren't squirreling out of their ongoing battle with snakes, but they may be turning tail. California ground squirrels are able to intimidate rattlesnakes, researchers have found, by heating their tails 3 degrees; the rattlers perceive infrared waves, and back off. Even more surprising, the squirrels are savvy enough not...</description><media:content url="http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=19536&amp;width=45&amp;height=45&amp;crop=Y&amp;updateddate=20110401033148" type="image/jpg" medium="image"><media:description type="plain">Secret Squirrel</media:description></media:content><link>http://www.newser.com/story/5837/hot-mommas-squirrels-use-heat-to-scare-off-snakes.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:07:52 CDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
