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Snakes
Part of the reptile family there are about 2,400 species of snakes in the world. Snakes live almost everywhere, in deserts, forests, oceans, streams, and lakes. Some species are ground dwellers, others live in trees, and other snakes spend most of their lives in water. This is the place to ask your questions about these cold blooded reptiles.
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No snake can be truly tamed. However, with proper care and handling many can lose their fear of humans. However, some species are not good candidates for this as they tend to remain rather obstinate and nasty their whole life.
Where is the smooth green snake native to?
The smooth green snake is native to the Neartic region. The smooth green snake can be found in northeastern Canada, Wyoming, Iowa, Texas, and northern Mexico.
How long a Indian cobra snake can be alive?
According to the San Diego Zoo website, their lifespan is 20-30 years.
There is more good info at:
http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-cobra.html
How do you treat a non poisonous snake bite on a dog?
If it was a non-poisonous snake bite, you would treat the puncture wounds as you would any other wound. Dab on antiseptic (liquid or cream) daily until the wounds are healed. The important thing, according to the question, was that it was non-poisonous.
How are cobra eggs fertilized?
The male and female snake have sexual intercourse and the babies develop in eggs that are expelled from the female.
What are adult anacondas eaten by?
Anacondas always hunt only when hungry. They can eat any animal they can manage to capture. Young Anacondas prefer prey such as fish, frogs, rodents etc. Adult Anacondas can overpower many different kinds of prey. They can eat turtles, sheep, dogs, jaguars, bird eggs, smaller sized mammals etc. Contrary to what is shown in the movies, Anacondas do not really attack humans unless it's provoked. Reports do not reveal a large number of attacks on humans. Therefore, you can probably be rest assured Anacondas are not particularly on the hunt for humans for their daily meals!
How wide can an anaconda open its mouth?
Almost none can. Those that are large enough do so the same way every other snake does; by unhinging their jawbone and letting it hang, then using muscular action to pull the prey into the digestive system.
Solid black snake with orange ring around neck?
Description: Ringneck snakes are small - 10 - 15 in (25 - 38 cm) - slender snakes that are generally grayish with a yellow or orange band around the back of the neck and a yellow or orange underside. Two subspecies are found in our region. The northern ringneck snake (Diadophis punctatus edwardsi) inhabits the mountains and generally has a complete neck ring and unpatterned underside. The Southern ringneck (D. p. punctatus) is found in the Coastal Plain and often has a broken neck ring and underside that is marked with a single row or black spots. The northern ringneck is also generally larger than the southern. Although usually grayish in coloration, both subspecies may range from nearly black to tan and both have smooth scales and round pupils. Females are larger and have proportionally shorter tails than males.
Range and Habitat: The ringneck snake is found throughout the eastern two thirds of the United States from southern Canada to Florida , across the desert southwest and along most of the Pacific coast. Ringneck snakes can be found in virtually any habitat but seem to prefer wooded areas. In the Piedmont and Coastal Plain ringnecks are particularly common in moist areas including river floodplains, moist hardwood forests, and wetland edges. In mountainous regions ringnecks are often found in more open habitats where they frequently take refuge under rocks.
Habits: Like other small woodland snakes in the Southeast, ringneck snakes spend most of their time underground or hidden under logs, rocks, leaf litter, or debris. Because of their abundance, ringnecks probably play an important ecological role as intermediate predators in community food webs, functioning as both predator and prey. Although they are completely harmless to humans, ringnecks have weak venom in their saliva which they use to subdue their prey, which include a variety of invertebrates, amphibians, lizards, and other small snakes. In many regions, salamanders and earthworms are particularly important prey. Ringneck snakes probably mate in the fall in our region, and females lay 2-7 eggs in the early summer. The young resemble adults.
Well they range. For a young corn snake like a baby its around £50 for a common morph and really you can go up and up and up, i would suggest spending around £65 you could get a very nice snake. Hope this helps!
Where can a flying snake be found?
Yes, and in fact they are all around us - the birds. Birds are descended from dinosaurs and are therefore dinosaurs themselves, and since most birds can fly, they can be accurately described as flying dinosaurs.
Snakes have a rudimentary digestive system that eliminates waste the same as us. The also have kidneys that remove waste.
Click on 'related links' (below) the link will take you to a picture of a snakes anatomy.
We tried placing old and unused CDs on the rail for our above ground pool as suggested by Hawaii and it worked.
There are high priced 'high frequency' bird repelling systems that you can buy, but they recommend that you use them in conjunction with the 'Terror Eyes Balls'.
You might try a fountain to spray up water to see if that helps.
An air rifle helps some (The sound scares them off temporarily).
Try rubber snakes. Lifelike, colorful snakes.
Use fishing line and string an X formation or grid (depending on size) Birds see 10 more than we do it will keep them from Flying above the pool, while not being an eye sore to the user.
I just destroy the nests before they have a chance to fully build them.
"Mr. Flip". It cost about $15 dollars. It is a 48" tall inflatable dolphin that is weighted in the bottom so it stands straight up.
Try a product called 'No More Ducks' from Australia.
The TerrorEyes balloon moves itself. The holographic eyes follow birds wherever they go, terrifying them and causing them to leave an area.
We used a product here in Australia called Kings Duck Solution. We simply painted it on the area the ducks were standing (poolside) and they left and have not returned. Great.
eggs Snakes are oviparous,means who lay eggs & after hatching the newborn emerges.But few advance snakes like,the viper adapts ovoviviparity,means they retain eggs inside their body until hatched, thus producing live babies like mammals.But truly not like mammals as there lie no involvement of any placenta like structure.
There are several species of spitting cobras, the King Cobra is not one of them.
Black-Necked Spitting Cobra
Black Spitting Cobra
Western Barred Spitting Cobra
Red Spitting Cobra
Mozambique Spitting Cobra
Malaysian Spitting Cobra
Black and White Spitting Cobra
Sumatran Spitting Cobra
Nubian Spitting Cobra
How much do snakes weight up to?
It depends on what type of snake it is im a herpitologist and have a burmese python. wasnt the smartest thing to get the can weigh over 100's of pounds. That's why i stick with ball pythons.
The largest snakes are Green Anacondas, and the longest snakes are Reticulated Pythons which can get to about 30ft in length.
Why do snakes smell with their forked tongue and not their nose?
A snake has a forked tongue because it evolved as a 'direction finding' sense over thousands of years. As a snake flicks its tongue, microscopic particles of scent stick to it. The tongue is pulled back into the mouth, and placed into the Jacobson's Organ - an area of very sensitive nerve cells. So sensitive that it can detect the microscopic variations from one half of the forked tongue to the other - telling the snake to 'go this way' to food !
What does a black mamba look like?
BLACKKKKKKK and LONGGGGGG and strikes fast.POISONOUSSSSSSSS!!!
^^ I Left this answer in - to show just how STUPID some of the replies on here are ! The black mamba is actually olive green in colour ! The name comes from the colour inside its mouth - which is jet-black. See the related link for a picture of a Black Mamba. (Snakester1962)
What group of animals are snakes in?
That would depend on what you mean by 'group.' Here is the taxonomy of the rattlesnakes:Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Viperidae
Subfamily: Crotalinae
What does the boa constrictor eat?
jaguars or other snakes and large birds. It depends if they are small or big
How long can a milk snake get?
I have a Honduran Milk Snake - She is five years old and around 4 1/2' long. Some milk snakes can be bigger - between six and seven feet. Others will stay fairly small their whole lives. Milk snakes don't really get that thick like pythons or boas - they are usually long and skinny.
what do red- tailed hawk eat
I just took a video of a red-tailed hawk eating a large rattlesnake. I was about ten feet away and the hawk tried to fly, but appeared pretty woozy and landed 20 ' away and let me approach it again! It had eaten the head off the snake. Talons and beak were covered in blood--the snake's head was missing. I went away for 20 minutes and came back and the hawk was back at the snake again. I will post the video on Youtube. Look for wildmandl and Hawk With Rattlesnake,
well the corn snake is a predator that goes hard in the paint! Well yes its a consumer cause its like Edward Cullen it wants your tasty red blood. Its sorta like the honey badger IT DGAF. IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. It does work. he goes hard to that whistle blowzz. Its a natural consumer that feeds on excellent Nikkis Minaj dawg.
