Snakes: The consensus among herpetologists is that poisonous snakes are more or less immune to their own poison. However, before it can be stated as a fact, laboratory-controlled experiments must be performed. The food of a great number of snakes is made up largely of destructive rodents such as rats, mice, and gophers. This makes snakes highly valuable to agriculture. This is true of the poisonous as well as the non-poisonous snakes. Capturing of Prey: Snakes hunt for and capture their prey in several ways. Some, such as the bull snakes and rat snakes, strike with the mouth open, driving their backward-curving teeth into the prey. RATTLESNAKE, rat"l-snak, any one of a well-known group of snakes occurring from southern Canada to central Argentina. The most dangerous and widely dispersed venomous snakes in the United States, rattlesnakes have long been the subject of myth and folklore, which have exaggerated both the peril from their bites and their reputed hatred for mankind. Almost all venomous snakes are members of four families: the Elapidae (cobras, mambas, coral snakes, and others), Hydrophiidae (sea snakes), Viperidae (Old World vipers), and Crotalidae (pit vipers).

Pages about Snakes:

- Rat snakes forage	- Snakes six
- Primitive snakes	- Varieties snakes lizards
- Green snakes hardier	- Species snakes
- Fam lies snakes	- The snakes mentioned
- Ich snakes through