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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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Is a cottonmouth and copperhead the same snake?
NO not at all! They are not the same snake. Two different species of snakes.
What does it mean to kill a snake and laugh at the same time in your dreams?
This sounds like a cathartic dream - a release of pent-up emotions leading to relief. The dream is relieving tensions by providing the experience of destroying an enemy/danger combined with the joy of victory.
How do you prevent noseeums bites?
Wear long shirts and pants and use insect repellent on all exposed skin areas, especially repellents containing deet.
What kind of needle is used to pierce snake bites?
It depends on what gauge you want the piercing done at, but that you can discuss with your professional body piercer when you make your appointment for your piercing. Talk to your local professional body piercer about ring sizes and gauges.
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Pythons are large snakes which kill their prey by wrapping it so tightly it cannot breathe and is crushed. Cobras kill their prey by biting it and injecting lethal venom. Both cobras and pythons are native to Africa and Asia.
There are no indigineous snakes, fleas, cockroaches, or spiders in Alaska. There is, however, an abundance of mosqitoes.
What snake is more venomous the gabon viper or thr black mamba?
some would disagree, and even though they both are very venomous i think that the black mamba is the more deadly of the two.
Do the brown rat snake has a venom?
There is no recognised species called a 'brown rat snake' - HOWEVER - Members of the Rat snake family are constrictors - not venomous.
did you know that snakes have hip bones?
and have 100's of ribsWho makes a better pet snake between a Milk snake or a Corn snake?
me personally prefer corn snakes,they love been handled and they are fangless
How do you avoid snakes while spelunking?
Thats easy, the majority of caves do not have any snakes being that they are cold blooded creatures and need heat, caves are dark and cooler. So in hindsight normally you will not see any snakes in caves, maybe at the very entrance to it you might find different creepy crawlies but once inside there really isnt any signs of life very often unless a bear or some other type of animal has come inside for as nap.
How does snake poison kill another animal. What chemical reactions happen to kill the victim?
It depends on the snake, but most of the REALLY poisonous snakes use a neurotoxic venom. The venom destroys the nerve connections throughout the body which basically cuts the brain off from the other vital organs. Other types of venom cause acute muscle paralysis, eventually leading to the lungs and heart seizing up and causing suffocation.
What is a rosey boa constrictor?
Rosey boas are small North American snakes from the same family as Boa constrictor species.
Is Green Anaconda bigger than the Anaconda?
General information!
The question what is the biggest snake can be confusing, the biggest as far as girth (largest being measured at 44 inches or 1,1176 m) is the Green Anaconda, on average anacondas are more then 20 ft long many reaching lengths of 29ft or more, with a weight of over 550 lbs, in terms of length then and only then will the Reticulated Python exceed the anaconda, the longest python was measured at 33ft but even this python can't match the total mass of the anaconda.
Anacondas are members of the Boidae family of reptiles and spend most of their time in rivers and swamps of the Amazon in South America which makes them excellent swimmers and are capable of holding their breath for around 15 minutes, female anacondas are generally larger then the males and bear their young live and are called "Neonates", the number of young varies, some have produced 100 babies, but the average is between 20 to 40 babies. Diet consist of (depending on the size of the anaconda, the larger the snake the larger the prey) large/small rodents like capybaras, also pigs, caiman, jaguars, deer, dogs, birds even fish and is acquired by ambushing and constricting it's prey (the anaconda is so powerful it generally crushes it's prey) then swallowing it whole, the digestion of the anaconda is very slow thereby allowing it to survive without food for well over a year.
Anacondas have around a 30 year life span and the biggest threat to it is man and loss of their habitat.
Are there snakes where I don't have to feed it rodents?
If you are an tight animal lover, a garter snake would be a good pet. You can feed them crickets or feeder goldfish (the one that's 25 cents per each).
