Archive for the ‘Reptiles, Amphibians’ Category

There are more than 2,700 snakes varieties spread all over the world in temperate and warm climates; the only part of the globe where snakes cannot live is Antarctica. Snakes vary in size from a few centimeters to more than nine meters in the case of the anacondas or the pythons. Poisonous snakes are far [...]

All snakes can swim, their anatomy allows them to hunt both on land and in water, and there are species which surely prefer water as their main life environment. Fresh water snakes are usually waiting for their prey under tree branches fallen in water or underneath overhanging trees. Hence, when you go fishing, you need [...]

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Copperhead snakes are the snakes to cause the nastiest and most frequent of problems in the United States. The copperhead can be distinguished by the stout form and the neck distinct from the body but the cross bands that represent the overall pattern make classification possible too. The bellies of [...]

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Studies reveal that people accustomed with the cobra snake family than with any other species or subspecies in the venomous or non-venomous serpent categories. Most cobra snake varieties live in tropical and desert areas, this snake is widely spread in the arid lands of Asia and Africa. The element to have rendered them [...]

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California king snake is one very unique species as individual features are identified from one specimen to another particularly in terms of pattern and colors. Thus, the morphology variability decreases the chances for the California king snake to be identified correctly when one doesn’t have enough knowledge about the possible individual feature manifestations. [...]