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  2. Gonyosoma oxycephalum - Wikipedia

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    Gonyosoma oxycephalum, known commonly as the arboreal ratsnake, the red-tailed green rat snake, and the red-tailed racer, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Southeast Asia .

  3. Food chain - Wikipedia

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    Food chain in a Swedish lake. Osprey feed on northern pike, which in turn feed on perch which eat bleak which eat crustaceans.. A food chain is a linear network of links in a food web, often starting with an autotroph (such as grass or algae), also called a producer, and typically ending at an apex predator (such as grizzly bears or killer whales), detritivore (such as earthworms and woodlice ...

  4. Rat meat - Wikipedia

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    Rat meat is the meat of various species of rat: medium-sized, long-tailed rodents. It is a food that, while taboo in some cultures, is a dietary staple in others. [1] [2] Taboos include fears of disease or religious prohibition, but in many places, the high number of rats has led to their incorporation into the local diets.

  5. Ractopamine - Wikipedia

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    Ractopamine (/ r æ k ˈ t ɒ p ə m aɪ n,-m iː n /) is an animal feed additive used to promote leanness and increase food conversion efficiency in farmed animals in several countries, but banned in others.

  6. Russell's viper - Wikipedia

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    Russell's viper (Daboia russelli) in a sensing momentRussell's viper (Daboia russelii) is a highly venomous snake in the family Viperidae native to South Asia.It was described in 1797 by George Shaw and Frederick Polydore Nodder.

  7. Food web - Wikipedia

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    A freshwater aquatic food web. The blue arrows show a complete food chain (algae → daphnia → gizzard shad → largemouth bass → great blue heron). A food web is the natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community.

  8. Behavioral sink - Wikipedia

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    Individual rats would rarely eat except in the company of other rats. As a result extreme population densities developed in the pen adopted for eating, leaving the others with sparse populations. In the experiments in which the behavioral sink developed, infant mortality ran as high as 96 percent among the most disoriented groups in the population.

  9. Ptyas mucosa - Wikipedia

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    Ptyas mucosa, commonly known as the Oriental rat snake, [2] dhaman or Indian rat snake, [4] is a common non-venomous species of colubrid snake found in parts of South and Southeast Asia. Dhamans are large snakes. Typical mature total length is around 1.5 to 1.95 m (4 ft 11 in to 6 ft 5 in) though some exceed 2 m (6 ft 7 in).