The snake is an exotic creature, cool, philosophical and deserves to be studied.
Snakes are reptiles that no-legged and long bodied. Snakes have scales like a lizard and are equally classified into scaly reptiles (Squamata). The difference is generally legged lizards, have ears, and eyelids that can open the lid. However, for cases of no-legged lizards (eg Ophisaurus spp.) This distinction becomes blurred and can not hold onto.
The snake is one reptile that developed the world’s most successful. In the mountains, forests, deserts, plains, farms, residential neighborhood, right down to the sea, can be found snake. Only, as is generally cold-blooded animals, snakes increasingly rare in cold places, such as on mountaintops, in Ireland and New Zealand and the snow fields or polar regions.
Many kinds of snakes all his life wandering in the woods and almost never touch the ground. Many other kinds of reptiles live above the ground surface or infiltrate infiltrate beneath litter or a pile of rocks. While some of the other living aquatic or semi-aquatic in swamps, lakes and seas.
Snakes prey on various species of animals smaller than himself. Aquatic snakes prey on fish, frogs, tadpoles, and even fish eggs. Tree snake and terrestrial snakes prey on birds, mammals, frogs, reptile species, including the eggs. Big snakes like the python development may prey on goats, deer, deer and even humans.
Snakes eat their prey round, that is, without chewing into pieces smaller. Teeth in the mouth of the snake does not have the functionality to chew, but merely to hold the prey that are not easily separated. To be fluent in swallowing, snake swallow prey usually choose to head first.
Several types of snakes, such as python and rat snakes, kill their prey by means melilitnya that she could not breathe. Venomous snakes kill prey with venom, which can paralyze the respiratory and cardiac nervous system (neurotoxins), or which may damage the blood circulation (haemotoksin), within a few minutes.Can be injected through the bite of the serpent, usually but it also contains digestive enzymes that facilitate digestion of food when it has swallowed.
To warm the body and also to help smooth the digestion, snakes often need sunning (basking) in the sun.
Most types of snakes reproduce by laying eggs. The number of eggs could be a few grains only, up to tens and hundreds of items. Snakes lay their eggs on the ground holes, caves, holes rotted wood, or under a pile of dry leaves. Several types of snakes known to stay with their eggs until hatching; even python ‘hatching’ eggs.
Some snakes, such as sacking striped snake, snakes and snake shoots dead sea ‘birth’ children. Actually they do not deliver as well as mammals, but the eggs develop and hatch inside the parent body (ovovivipar), then came out as a small snake.
Some kind of primitive snakes, blind snakes or snakes that Rhampotyphlops braminus wire, so far only known to the females. Small worm-like snakes is thought able to lay eggs and reproduce without a male snake (parthenogenesis).
There is a venomous snake (a toxin, venom / Venomous), but many others do not. However, no need to worry when you meet a snake. Among the venomous, most usually are not dangerous enough for humans. Moreover, snakes generally go away when you meet a person.
Primitive snakes, such as wire snake, snake sacks, two headed snakes, and the python, not venomous. Venomous snakes, including interest most Colubridae: but usually it is generally weak. Venomous snakes are strong in Indonesia usually fall into one of the serpent tribe follows: Elapidae (cobra, striped snake, snake chili, etc..), Hydrophiidae (sea snakes) and Viperidae (land snakes, sea serpent carcasses , snakes bandotan).
Some species, for example:
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Great! thanks for the share!
Arron