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Primitive Snakes:
The consensus among herpetologists is that poisonous primitive snakes are more or less immune to their own poison. However, before it can be stated as a fact, labora¬tory-controlled experiments must be performed.
The food of a great number of primitive snakes is made up largely of destructive rodents such as rats, mice, and gophers. This makes primitive snakes highly valuable to agriculture. This is true of the poisonous as well as the non-poisonous primitive snakes.
Capturing of Prey: primitive snakes hunt for and capture their prey in several ways. Some, such as the bull primitive snakes and rat primitive 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 primitive snakes occurring from southern Canada to central Argentina. The most dangerous and widely dispersed venomous primitive snakes in the United States, rattleprimitive snakes have long been the subject of myth and folklore, which have ex¬aggerated both the peril from their bites and their reputed hatred for mankind. Almost all venomous primitive snakes are members of four families: the Elapidae (cobras, mambas, coral primitive snakes, and others), Hydrophiidae (sea primitive snakes), Viperidae (Old World vipers), and Crotalidae (pit vipers).
See Also Some Snakes Make:
At present, there are 2,600 kinds of snakes in the world. Approxi¬mately one-eighth of these possess well-developed poison fangs; of these, little more than half are dangerous to man. In the United States there are only four types of dangerously poisonous snakes: the copperhead of the eastern and southeastern states, the water moccasin of the southeastern states, the coral snakes of the southern states, and the widely distributed rattlesnakes. All other snakes are harmless, and among them are many species which adapt themselves readily to captivity and handling. However, nearly all will attempt to bite when first captured.Most snakes hibernate during the cold months of the year. At Some snakes make time in the fall, depending upon the range, snakes begin to seek out hibernating locations. These locations may be holes under rocks, rock fissures, deep holes in the ground, natural fissures or crevices in the ground, used and abandoned ant tunnels, old rodent holes, and in the case of water snakes the mud in the bottom of wells. These locations are called "dens." Some snakes make snakes burrow into the soil while others merely crawl and squeeze into the openings they find. Snakes commonly hibernate in large groups. However, the individuals of a species are nearly always found together in their own group within the "den."
On The Other Hand See Hognose Snakes Prize:
This snake is called hognose snakes prize because of its peculiar upturned, shovellike snout which looks like a hog's nose. All hognose snakes prize snakes are prize bluffers. They are unique in their at¬tempts to save themselves from danger. When frightened, they flat¬ten the head and neck in such a way as to resemble those of a cobra, and hiss loudly. If the danger does not remove itself, the snake flops over on its back and simulates death. A hognose snakes prize snake seldom attempts to bite. All become extremely gentle in captivity, make excellent pets, and tolerate much handling.AM and NAI Honor Work by Young Architects As in 2002 and 2004, the this year's AM NAI Prize is to be awarded for the best building by a young architect. The Prize is an initiative of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) and the chief sponsor of the prize, AM, a real estate development company specializing in residential estates, town centers, office complexes, business parks, and shopping centers. The prize money consists of an award of EUR 1,000 for a nomination and EUR 10,000 for the winning design.
