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Snakes Six:
The consensus among herpetologists is that poisonous snakes six 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 snakes six is made up largely of destructive rodents such as rats, mice, and gophers. This makes snakes six highly valuable to agriculture. This is true of the poisonous as well as the non-poisonous snakes six.
Capturing of Prey: snakes six hunt for and capture their prey in several ways. Some, such as the bull snakes six and rat snakes six, 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 six occurring from southern Canada to central Argentina. The most dangerous and widely dispersed venomous snakes six in the United States, rattlesnakes six 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 snakes six are members of four families: the Elapidae (cobras, mambas, coral snakes six, and others), Hydrophiidae (sea snakes six), Viperidae (Old World vipers), and Crotalidae (pit vipers).
See Also Blotched Snakes:
This has given rise to the vernacular name of chicken snake for some of the larger species in the group. Although rat snakes easily climb trees, few of them are restricted to wooded areas. A blotched pattern is characteristic of hatchlings, but in some species the blotches are replaced by four longitudinal stripes, while in others the markings disappear. Relatively few other American repre¬sentatives of the family Colubridae have quite so many rows of scales, usually 25 to 27 on the body. Two species of the Asiatic genus Ptyas, with scales in 15 to 17 rows, are also known as rat snakes. The common rat snake or dhaman, P. mucosus, is widely distributed in most of south¬ern Asia.Description: Ground color greenish, orange, reddish, or orange-yellow; square reddish-brown or black blotches down back; smaller and lighter blotches along sides; belly yellow with dark blotches; bull snake may be distinguished from the other harmless blotched snakes in its range by its keeled scales and single anal plate; attains average length of 5 feet, maximum of 8.
On The Other Hand See Snakes -eyes:
Ear mites, which get inside the aperture of the ear and cause in¬tense itching, can be controlled by injecting baby oil in the ear with a medicine dropper. Hold the animal so the oil will stay for a few minutes; then swab with cotton on an applicator. snakes -eyes are often parasitized by mites. The treatment here is a thorough dusting with insect powder, which may be applied even to the eyes, because snakes -eyes lack movable eyelids and have the eye covered by a transparent scale that protects it from irritation by foreign bodies. It is important to remove water from the cage during treatment because the mites will take refuge in the water to escape the powder.At present, there are 2,600 kinds of snakes -eyes 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 -eyes: the copperhead of the eastern and southeastern states, the water moccasin of the southeastern states, the coral snakes -eyes of the southern states, and the widely distributed rattlesnakes -eyes. All other snakes -eyes 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.
