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In Above Snakes, feathers are an important early-game resource that you’ll need to unlock for powerful constructions like the Cartography Table. Here’s where to find them. Above Snakes, the new Western-style survival game, has a lot of different materials and resources players can find in the world. One of the most critical resources for your early game is Feathers. Here’s where to find Feathers in Above Snakes. Where to Find Feather in Above Snakes To find Feathers in Above Snakes, Search Pine Trees in the game world. Each time you search a tree, there’s a small chance that a Feather will drop. You may have to check several trees before you can actually obtain Feathers, as a tree is much more likely to produce a Branch. Feathers are used for a vast array of different items and constructions in the game, including Ink, a critical resource that you use to construct your Cartography Table. The Cartography Table is required to research new biomes, which will expand the types of materials available to you and will open special areas that you need to unlock. At the end of the day, Feathers aren’t the most intuitive item to find in Above Snakes. After all, you’d expect them to be on a bird or near a watering hole. Instead, if you shake a Pine Tree hard enough, it will produce Feathers. For more guides on the game, see our Above Snakes section.

Can explode in time exponentially. Accordingly, we propose an approximate algorithm to compute the nearest feasible solution.Fig. 2Visualizing the approximate approach to compute the nearest feasible solutionFull size image4 Snake optimizerIn this work, the snake optimization technique is utilized to find the most feasible task schedule for the above-described problem. The snake optimization algorithm is a recent nature-inspired technique that was introduced in [47]. The inspiration comes from the behavior of snake mating in nature. The snakes are cold-blooded vertebrates belonging to reptiles, and crucial factors govern the mating between the female and male snakes. The competition among the males to attract females’ attention for mating starts to take place when the temperature is sufficiently low during the late spring, and early summer [48]. However, the mating process does not rely on the temperature nor female’s decision only, but also on the food availability [48]. Accordingly, mating occurs only when the temperature is low, and food is available; otherwise, the snakes will only search for food or eat what is already there. By considering this information in the optimization context, two phases in the searching process can be figured out: exploration and exploitation. When the environmental factors from food and low temperature do not exist, the snakes only go searching for food to survive, and this is the exploration. At the same time, the exploitation phase has various transition phases to efficiently reach the global minimum. If the temperature is high, but the food is available, the snakes care about only eating the existing food. In the case of food availability and a low-temperature environment, the mating process occurs. There are two different cases for the mating process: the fighting and mating modes. In the fight mode, each male will compete for the best female, and each female will attempt to select the best male. On the other hand, in the mating mode, the mating of each pair is related to the quantity of the available food.Before getting more familiar with the mathematics behind the SO technique, it is important to mention that SO is just like all the metaheuristics algorithms; it starts by generating a random initial population to be able to begin the optimization algorithm process. Also, this work follows the original parameters of the SO technique presented earlier by Hashim et al. in [47], where they assumed that the population is divided into two groups: a male group and a female group of an equal number of members. The process starts by defining the surrounding temperature \(T_{surr}\) and the food quantity \(Q_{food}\) as follows:$$\begin{aligned} T_{surr}= & {} exp\left(\frac{-t}{t_{max}}\right) \end{aligned}$$ (7) $$\begin{aligned} Q_{food}= & {} 0.5 \,*\, exp\left(\frac{t\,-\,t_{max}}{t_{max}}\right) \end{aligned}$$ (8) where t is the current iteration and \(t_{max}\) is the maximum number of iterations. If \(Q_{food}\) is less than a threshold of 0.25, this means that the snakes go exploration and search for food, and this can be modeled as follows:$$\begin{aligned} X_{i,j}(t + 1)= & {} X_{rand,j}(t)\,\pm \, 0.05 \times A_j \nonumber \\{} & {} \quad \times ((X_{max}

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — They creep, slither and slide over and around each other by the dozen and now there's a webcam so that anybody can watch them online at any time, even at night.A “mega den” with as many as 2,000 rattlesnakes isn't top binge-watching for many people. But it's a viewing bonanza for scientists and other snake enthusiasts whose observations are helping to broaden understanding of these unusual — and undeservedly maligned — reptiles.The remote site on private land in northern Colorado is on a hillside full of rock crevices where the snakes can keep warm and hide from predators.“This is a big, big den for rattlesnakes. This is one of the biggest ones we know of,” Emily Taylor, a California Polytechnic State University biology professor leading the Project RattleCam research, said Tuesday.The Cal Poly researchers set up the webcam in May, working off their knowledge from a previous webcam they set up at a rattlesnake den in California. The exact location in Colorado is kept secret to discourage snake lovers — or haters — from messing with the snakes, Taylor said.The high-elevation Colorado rattlesnakes take refuge in the den for winter and emerge in the spring for a short season of activity compared to rattlesnakes in the Southwest. This time of year, only pregnant female snakes are at the den while males and not-pregnant females move into the lower country nearby.In August, the babies will be born. They're called pups and, unlike nearly all other reptiles, they do not hatch from eggs but are born alive.Also unlike other snakes, rattlesnake mothers care for their young, protecting them against predators and shielding them with their bodies. Sometimes rattlesnakes even care for the young of others.“Rattlesnakes are actually really good mothers. People don't know that,” Taylor said.A webcam helps scientists observe snake behavior without interfering. Meanwhile, people watching online tip off scientists to events they miss, or clue them in with their own knowledge about the local environment.“It truly is a group effort, a community science effort, that we couldn’t do on our own as scientists,” Taylor said.Now and then, there's drama.Red-tailed hawks circle above, awaiting a chance to swoop in for a meal. Once a magpie — a relative of crows with black, white and blue coloring and a long tail — caught a baby rattlesnake.When it rains, the rattlesnakes coil up and catch water to drink from the cups formed by their bodies.Taylor expects a surge in activity after the pups are born — then even more in September as snakes return from surrounding areas in preparation for winter.Rattlesnakes get a bum rap as creepy and threatening. But the webcam shows they're social animals that don't