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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.
9,216 Questions
Do poisonous snakes always leave poison when they strike?
it depends on wat type of snake it is if it is not a poisonous snake then it would leave poison wen it strike
How do you kill the fear on mgs 3 snake eater?
You must gear Thermo Glass.... Try this instead: The first time you visit the area where you battle The Fear, equip the Thermal Goggles and find and KILL at least 6 (six) Poison Dart Frogs. DO NOT EAT them, they are POISONOUS!! When you return to this area later, Use the CURE selection and remove that arrow in your leg; it's coated with poison! Use the SERUM to cure the poisoning. Now, go into your Backpack and un-equip all unnecessary weapons. Keep the MK22 Hush Puppy and the EZ Gun (Very Easy Mode). Equip all 6 Poison Dart Frogs. Use the Thermal Goggles and wear the Flecktarn Camo (If you have it) to prevent battery drain. Keep you eyes in the trees and watch out for traps! You can beat him by standing in one spot the whole time, however. The Fear has an impressive leaping ability and can fly from tree to tree from great distance. Shoot him while he stops to leap to another tree. You will be draining his stamina and he will soon get hungry. When he starts complaining that he needs food, quickly equip a Poison Dart Frog and toss it out in the open. He will automatically go for the tossed food for rather than forage for food. He will pick up the food and immediately state,"It's poison!" His Life Gauge will start flashing and he will start grunting, "Oh!" every so often. Quickly re-equip your gun and shoot him as soon as he gets ready to jump from tree to tree (you should be able to get in 3 good shots). Throw out another PDF and get ready to shoot him again. This time, shoot him as soon as he eats the food! He may just throw up! Keep repeating this process and The Fear will be easily defeated! Not to mention, he will leave behind his Spider Camo which has an impressive +70 (80%) camo index rendering you nearly invisible to enemies! The down side is, you will get hungry and have to eat twice as often as this Camo causes Stamina drain.
What happens to baby snakes once the mother delivers them?
Well this depends entirely on the breed of snake you're asking about. Some snakes, such as garter snakes, will give birth to live young. Others, like (my personal favorite) the Western Hognose, lay eggs. Most egg-laying snakes are fairly uninterested in their clutches and will abandon them shortly after they lay them. Others, such as the king cobra and some species pythons, will stay in the vicinity of the eggs until they hatch. Either way, the mothers leave after the eggs hatch. The vast majority of neonates hatch from their eggs by using a temporary "egg tooth" located on the end of their snout. This "tooth" looks more like a little mini-unicorn horn. They use it to slice open the egg. Now, I'm not sure how it works for all species after this point, but the Western Hognose babies will stay in the broken eggshell for about two days. Once the umbilical cord has dried and fallen off, the snake is ready to leave it's shell. Forcing the snake out of his/her shell before this time can result in death by dehydration or exsanguination. :[ But anyway, no matter how our babies started, we now have live young who are not being looked after by mom. At this time they're on their own to forage for food and grow up. I hope this actually answered your question, since I feel like I threw a bit too much information at you. But there it is.
What do's the biggest snake look like?
no actually andacondas are 20-26 length so its not the biggest its the blood python it rarely grows to 10-36 and if you think andacondas are the largest then you are thumbs down BOO
so if theirs another one that's bigger improve answer cause on my book it has another bigger one than andaconda
How do ICare for damaged ventral scales of a corn snake?
It depends what caused the 'damage' in the first place. Keep the area as clean and dry as possible. The damaged scales will repair themselves over successive sheds.
Simply because all sea snakes are highly venomous ! Their main diet is fish - it's no good biting a fish, and releasing it while the venom takes effect, as the snake would lose the fish in the sea. Sea-snake venom kills almost instantaneously.
What family is the anaconda from?
General information!
Anacondas Scientific classification.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Boidae
Subfamily: Boinae
Genus: Eunectes
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 (6.09 m) long many reaching lengths of 29ft ( 8.83 m) or more, with a weight of over 550 lbs ( 249.48 kg), in terms of length then and only then will the Reticulated Python exceed the anaconda, the longest python was measured at 33 ft ( 10.05 m) 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 with a quick strike, 100 rear-facing sharp teeth hold the prey while suffocating it with constriction, (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.
A snake came to my water-trough
On a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat,
To drink there.
In the deep, strange-scented shade of the great dark carob-tree
I came down the steps with my pitcher
And must wait, must stand and wait, for there he was at the trough before
me.
He reached down from a fissure in the earth-wall in the gloom
And trailed his yellow-brown slackness soft-bellied down, over the edge of
the stone trough
And rested his throat upon the stone bottom,
i o And where the water had dripped from the tap, in a small clearness,
He sipped with his straight mouth,
Softly drank through his straight gums, into his slack long body,
Silently.
Someone was before me at my water-trough,
And I, like a second comer, waiting.
He lifted his head from his drinking, as cattle do,
And looked at me vaguely, as drinking cattle do,
And flickered his two-forked tongue from his lips, and mused a moment,
And stooped and drank a little more,
Being earth-brown, earth-golden from the burning bowels of the earth
On the day of Sicilian July, with Etna smoking.
The voice of my education said to me
He must be killed,
For in Sicily the black, black snakes are innocent, the gold are venomous.
And voices in me said, If you were a man
You would take a stick and break him now, and finish him off.
But must I confess how I liked him,
How glad I was he had come like a guest in quiet, to drink at my water-trough
And depart peaceful, pacified, and thankless,
Into the burning bowels of this earth?
Was it cowardice, that I dared not kill him? Was it perversity, that I longed to talk to him? Was it humility, to feel so honoured?
I felt so honoured.
And yet those voices:
If you were not afraid, you would kill him!
And truly I was afraid, I was most afraid, But even so, honoured still more
That he should seek my hospitality
From out the dark door of the secret earth.
He drank enough
And lifted his head, dreamily, as one who has drunken,
And flickered his tongue like a forked night on the air, so black,
Seeming to lick his lips,
And looked around like a god, unseeing, into the air,
And slowly turned his head,
And slowly, very slowly, as if thrice adream,
Proceeded to draw his slow length curving round
And climb again the broken bank of my wall-face.
And as he put his head into that dreadful hole,
And as he slowly drew up, snake-easing his shoulders, and entered farther,
A sort of horror, a sort of protest against his withdrawing into that horrid black hole,
Deliberately going into the blackness, and slowly drawing himself after,
Overcame me now his back was turned.
I looked round, I put down my pitcher,
I picked up a clumsy log
And threw it at the water-trough with a clatter.
I think it did not hit him,
But suddenly that part of him that was left behind convulsed in undignified haste.
Writhed like lightning, and was gone
Into the black hole, the earth-lipped fissure in the wall-front,
At which, in the intense still noon, I stared with fascination.
And immediately I regretted it.
I thought how paltry, how vulgar, what a mean act!
I despised myself and the voices of my accursed human education.
And I thought of the albatross
And I wished he would come back, my snake.
For he seemed to me again like a king,
Like a king in exile, uncrowned in the underworld,
Now due to be crowned again.
And so, I missed my chance with one of the lords
Of life.
And I have something to expiate:
A pettiness.
How is a snake poison converted to anesthesia?
Certain enzymes and chemicals which make up snake venom can be isolated and refined.
What is the deepest a snake has ever been found in a cave?
I doubt it's been recorded really - it's notthe sort of question a cave-biologist would ask. There is a SE Asian (Malaysian I think) snake that lives in caves where it preys on bats - but these caves are more horizontal than vertical so distance rather than depth counts.
Snakes are not generally cave-dwellers though they are found in them, either sheltering or by their accidentally falling orbeing washed in.
Why does your muffler makes a rattle noise?
you may have a loose clamp holding it. You could have a rock in it.
Is it true that there is a hypnotizing snake?
No, no, it isn't true, but I know, that when natrix natrix (or the grass snake) is trying to catch a frog, the frog begans acting really strangely - it isn't running away, it just begans hopping very slowly and calls very strangely, like a SHIP. Strange, isn't it!
From Wes - herpetologist
What are the characteristics of the Akamata Snake?
They are nonpoisonous, and are very aggressive when people enter its territory.
What do the coolers yellow and Brown mean on a snake?
Depends on what type of snake it is. There's a saying... "brown touches black, you're okay, Jack... brown touches yellow, you're a dead fellow". However, this should NOT be considered concise in any way, as it only refers to coral snakes and copycats thereof, and it not a universal truth for all species of venemous and non-venemous snakes.
Is a hog-nosed snake a herbivore or a conivore?
It's a carnivore - just like all other species of snake.
