Interaction with Humans
Well talking about snakes then there are some 2500 species that are living with us on this planet and sometimes they even confront us in our homes and gardens. These are found everywhere and there seems to be no place on this earth that they don’t live, whether it’s those rocky mountain in Texas, or those dry and barren deserts in the U.S. or even as said before sometimes in our shoe cabins, gardens and garages and not to forget even in our car parking area. One would be surprised that if you would know that they are available for sightseeing even in the Seas, Rivers and those icy Blue Mountains.
Generally, they have always been thought to be venomous but the fact is something different. There are some snakes that are venomous and there are some that are not. And one can easily recognize these venomous snakes because of their long and sharp fangs. These could be the first signs to show that these snakes are venomous, while there other counterparts who are non venomous are not so.
So here’s some information that I am sure would help you out to classify and recognize snakes before you think of keeping them as pets. Make sure you do a thorough research on their kinds and types; here is some information that would give you some knowledge about them and help you not to make the wrong move.
Venomous snakes are classified and categorized into four different categories such as the Elapids, the Colubrids, the Vipers and lastly the Hydrophiidae. The elapids are usually found in the tropical and the sub tropical regions of the world and they have fixed hollow fangs which they use to bite their prey and simultaneously inject that venom in its body. These venom fangs are like those hypodermic needles and the syringes and they usually have a hole in them so that the venom can be injected in the prey’s body.
Their size could be anywhere around eighteen or twenty centimeters to 6 meters in length and there are about two hundred and thirty different species of snakes that belong to this category. The most prominent ones among them are the King cobra, the Black Mamba and the Australian Copperheads. These can have both neurotoxin and hem toxins that have the ability to kill down their prey, usually including rodents and other small reptiles.
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