The document discusses various aspects of snakes, including their physical characteristics, habitats, and ecological roles. It highlights their diversity, venom potency, and the threats they face due to habitat destruction, climate change, and human ignorance. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of conservation efforts to protect these misunderstood creatures.

1. Incomparable beauty
with hazardous poison

2.  Reptile
 Long Cylindrical body
 Body covered with scales
 Can weigh up to 200 pounds
 Poisonous
venom
 Fangs

3. Contain
remnants of
legs, males use
them during
courtship and
fighting

4. •Can be two
headed,
both heads fight
for food

5.  Can barely see
 No eyelids, sleep with eyes open
 No stingers
 Make burrows
 Some can fly
 Can grow from 10cm-70m
 3,400 sp, 600 are venomous, only 200 cause
serious hazard

6.  Can survive in any environment
 Infrared sensory receptors
 Only 90,000 die because of snake venom
while millions are killed by mosquitoes
 One functional lung
 Can bite after death
 Venom used as punishment in medieval
Europe

7.  Always cornivorous
 Can survivve without food for months and
sometimes upto two years
 After limits are reached they start digesting
their own heart
 They can grow without food
 Eat too much, when too full methane builds
up, can explode
 Mobile jaws help them swallow prey as whole

9.  Cosmopolitan
 Not found in Antarctica
 Found in driest deserts
 Can infest homes
 Found in Himalayas _ at the height of 49m

10.  Brazil
 Sao Paulo
 Government is unable to build a single light
house
 1 snake at every 1 square meter
 Venom is 3-5 times more poisons then
ordinary snakes

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13.  Brazil
 Marshes
 Gives birth
 Eats prey as whole
 Heaviest

14.  14 feet
 3.5 pounds
 Lethal
 25,000 humans die every year, India 15,000,
Indonesia 10,000
 Causes death in 20 minutes
 no anti venom
 Fastest land snake
 Injects 100-120 mg venom in each bite

16.  Largest snake in world
 50-68 m long
 Can grow up to 40 feet
 200 pounds
 Extinct
 Existed 25,000
years ago

17.  India, China
 Longest snake
 Looks at 6 feet human in the eyes
 Venom used for medication too
 Snake charmers use them a lot
 Venom is 20 times more poisonous hen
normal snake

19.  Female secretes pheromone during breeding
season and all males accumulate over her,
only one lucky male gets a chance

20.  Kills most humans, very aggressive, causes
Internal bleeding, bites many times

21.  Can open mouth up to 170 degrees
 Venom is deadly

22.  20 feet
 Causes death in 30 minutes

23.  Contains rattle at its tail
 Rattle produces sound which scares
predators away
 Venomous
 Moves its rattle 300 times
in one minute

24. .

25.  Most beautiful
 Exceedingly layered
 Endangered 1000-2000 are remaining
 These photos are unable to explain how
beautiful they are.
 Its difficult to do the snake’s coloration
justice in a photo.

27.  Prismy scales
 9 sub species
 7 feet
 Exported
for sale

28.  Egg laying
 Non venomous
 Yellow in picture is actually deep orange

29.  Shimmering rainbow
 Taiwan, Japan
 Harmless to humans
 Under light body dances with colours

30.  6.9 feet
 Personified beauty

31.  Hard to see
 Not well known

32.  Juvenile may be yellow, red or brown
 Adult is pure green in color

34.  15-20 bites
 Deadly
 No anti venom
 Not much research
 Flee before biting

35.  Maxico
 Swallows prey
alive

36.  Painful bite
 2 feet long

37.  Geometric patteren is present in scales
 Motionless
 Tongue ext

39.  France, Italy, Nigeria
 Snakes maintain eco system being top
predators saidChris Reading of the U.K
CENTER FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY
 Snakes play an important role in pest control
in areas such as sugar cane plantations
 They are being wiped out like dinosaurs 65
million years ago

40.  According to I.U.C.N 28% of reptile species
are threatened among them 12% are snakes
 They play important role in maintaining
balance in food web
 They were worshipped in history still are
killed barbarically
 Lack of knowledge makes people kill non
venomous snakes too for example water
snake has a very bad habit of biting but it is
totally unhazardous

41.  Increase in human population is a threat for
all wildlife but conflict with snakes is
increasing every passing day
 Population decline is because of habitat
destruction, over harvesting, disease,
invasive species and even climate change
 Climate change is not natural too its because
of human activities

42.  Underfunded species
 Need saving
 Closer to the brink of extinction
 Poorly understood by
researchers
 Little attention from society

43.  Every year thousands of rattle snakes are rounded up
for being killed
 Gasoline is dumped inside their burrows and they are
forced to leave
 They have strong family bonds
 After capturing them they are forced to be starved
 Even their mouths are sewed
 Usually decapitated it doesn’t kill them so they suffer
for hours
 In the end humans make hand marks at walls with
snake blood, the spectators of this painful event

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47.  Rarest snake
 Carrabean island

48.  Native to black sea region of Russia
 Venomous fangs

49.  Also called crotalus unicolor
 Carrabean island

50.  Mauritius
 5 feet in length
 Belly is lighter in color then upper side

51.  Critically endangered
 NorthWestern Australia

52.  North western Armenia
 North EastTurkey
 Population at decline
 due to large number
 of domestic
 grazing animals

53.  Formerly considered most endangered it
made come back due to conservation efforts
 Caribbean island

54.  Slender pit viper
 California

55.  Critically endangered viper
 Brazil

56.  VenomousViper
 North western Iran
 EasternTurkey
 Rocky, grassy
areas
 Altitude: 15,000m
{5,000 feet}

57.  Donate today because they are mis-
understood ecologically important animals
 Saving snakes is behooveful

58. Gracious