Posts Tagged ‘Kinds Of Snakes’

The Agile Snakes

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010


All 2,700 kinds of snakes tend to look alike – long, squirmy and legless. But despite this superficial resemblance, they show just as much variability of form as their ancestors the lizards do. They range in size from the five inches of a burrowing snake no thicker than a goose quill to the 30 feet of an Asian python over 300 pounds in weight. And with these variations go others – environmental adaptations such as the prehensile tails of many of the arboreal snakes, or skin colors and patterns that match or blend with the surroundings. The amazing thing about snakes is that being legless has not proven a hindrance to locomotion, but an enhancement, making them extremely agile. Some snakes can even outdistance a man in brush or over rough ground.  The eyelash viper, a poisonous snake of Central America, can wind its prehensile tail several times around a branch and grab at birds with its open mouth while dangling in the air.

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Growing Troubles with Man 2

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010


The lot of reptiles, living on earth with man these latter years, is mainly decimation. By an odd eddy in the current of progress, however, some things we do turn out to further the reptile cause. For instance, land reptiles eat  whole small animals, and man does a number of things that favor the increase of these. Predator control is one such thing. Quail management in south Georgia has killed off old enemies of rabbits, and the diamondback rattlesnake has now become more plentiful there than anywhere else. Cutover lands generally make better snake and lizard country than original forest, and the borders between woods and fields are also highly productive of reptiles. The gravitation of some kinds of snakes and lizards into and around human abodes was spoken of in another chapter, as was the inadvertent extension of reptile ranges by transportation in the cargoes of commerce.

Besides these more-or-less accidental aids to reptiles, man has erected a few preserves to save threatened species. The islands set aside for the tuatara in New Zealand are the most notable example. The desert tortoise is protected in California, the diamondback terrapin on part of the Atlantic Coast and the Gila monster and horned lizard in Arizona. For a time there was a python preserve.

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