Download !FULL! Crushing Snakes
Clarissa Pfister
The political symbolism of the lion of monarchy crushing the evil serpent was applauded by Louis Philippe, who made Barye a knight of the Legion of Honor in 1833. Later Barye was appointed professor of zoological drawing at the Museum of Natural History, where Auguste Rodin studied with him.
I actually thought the statues of Our Blessed Lady standing on the snakes was that she was born without original sin so she could give birth to Our Lord Yeshua Christ meaning she conquered the serpent that was the cause of original sin by tempting Eve to eat the forbidden fruit but I must be wrong. Peace
I have a three foot statue of the Virgen, crushing the snake. I thought it shows the Power of Mary over evil. I think our blessed Mother can with the help of Jesus, help us to conquer all evil, as long as we pray and believe.
You see, the cross was not a defeat for Jesus. It was the definite plan of God to crush the head of the serpent once and for all by redeeming all those who had lived under a curse. Just as the bronze serpent which Moses lifted up in the wilderness, so Jesus had to be lifted up in the form of a snake, in the form of sinful flesh, so that all of us snakes could look to him and be healed.
The research could also have implications for our understanding of some of the world's largest snakes, with the green anaconda known to eat prey as large as a jaguar. It also points to how snakes may have evolved to eat such a large range of prey in the first place.
The snakes eat a range of animals, from fish and small birds to monkeys and other reptiles. To catch their food the snakes wrap their body around the prey and squeeze. As the snakes get larger they can tackle bigger prey, with wild pigs among the largest eaten by Boa constrictor.
It was originally thought that the snakes killed their prey by cutting off its air supply and suffocating the animals. But more recent research has shown that instead the snakes cut off the blood supply to organs including the heart and brain, causing rapid unconsciousness and death.
Once their prey is dead, Boa constrictor consumes it whole. Unlike mammals, the jaw bones of snakes are unfused and are instead connected by elastic tissue. As a result, their jaw can expand to allow them to swallow significantly larger prey than may otherwise be expected.
However, when the ribs are being used for compression or expanding to swallow, the snakes can't also move them to keep the snake breathing. Breathing is particularly important during these activities, which can increase the amount of oxygen the animal needs by up to 17 times its normal level.
An expandable cuff used to measure blood pressure was then wrapped around the snakes to allow the researchers to see how the snakes responded when the animals couldn't move certain areas of their body, as if they were constricting prey.
The scientists found that the different sections of the ribs could move independently, with the muscles only activated in areas required to keep the snake breathing. Even when ribs which are normally used for breathing are constricting, posterior ribs can use the non-breathing section of the lungs to suck air in and allow the snakes' survival.
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