Depending on what you refer to as other snakes it could be a lot.
But generally speaking it is the heat sensing pits in the head that make the bigger particular difference and the reason for the name.
They use the heat senses to locate prey in precisely in order to make their strike. Most other snakes rely on smell, vibration and vision for this.
Live bearers such as boas, earth snakes, and many rattle snakes and other pit vipers are all ovoviviporous.
There are many types of viper snakes found all around the world. They are divided into two groups; pit vipers and true vipers. Pit vipers have pit organs between their eyes and nostrils while true vipers have no pit organs.
No, there are no poisonous snakes in Korea. There are, however, venomous snakes. Most notably various pit vipers.
Certainly- some of the most deadly poisonous snakes are pit vipers. yes
Yes and No.Some snakes have venom and others do not.
Yes, they are pit vipers, like rattlesnakes and copperheads.
hawks eat wagler pit vipers
Yes, pit vipers do have rattles. Also, similarly to rattlesnakes, pit vipers have two organs that can sense radiation around them.
Pit Vipers are found mostly in Asia and some regions of the United States. These snakes like to live in desert areas.
Ball Python bites can not kill you because they are not venomous. The way that they classify snakes is constrictors which are Pythons, Boas, and Colubrids which are corn snakes and other cylinder like snakes. Then there are the venomous snakes which are Elapids, and Viperids. Elapids are the Cobras, coral snakes, kraits, mambas, sea snakes, sea kraits and Australian elapids and so on. Viperids are the true vipers, pit vipers and so on.
Pit vipers use infrared vision to hunt small mammals. The mammals are warmer than the things around them (i.e. they glow in IR) making it easy for the snake to see them. Snakes that are not pit vipers have no infrared vision and generally do not hunt mammals.
Pit vipers. Copperhead, cottonmouth, timber and eastern diamondback rattlesnakes.