Appearance and Locomotion of Animal

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Their venom is a potent Hemotoxin, the venom kills red blood cells and impales muscle tissue. The venom is highly potent and lethal to humans, but antivenin is ubiquitous and deaths are very uncommon. The snake is easily recognizable by its large head and bulky body The ground color of its body is olive brown and has large diamonds with brown centers and cream borders. The tail is brownish grey (banded with dark rings). Newborns have a button at the end of their tail, and adults and juveniles have a rattle. Young and old have a cat eye with a vertical pupil. While baby snakes are 15 inches long, they can grow up to eight feet because of its complementing 20 year livelihood The Diamondback Rattler can also strike 2/3 of its body length so a six foot snake can strike four

There are many different species of snakes that inhabit Arizona, but the Sonoran Coral Snake, the Sonoran Mountain Kingsnake, the Milk Snake, and the Sonoran Shovel-Nosed Snake are particularly interesting because despite being different species they all look like one another. The red, black, and yellow stripes they share can be attributed to evolution and environment. The four species of snakes have different diets, habitats, and distribution, but they do share one environmental element: primary predators. All four snakes have raptors, long tailed weasels, and badgers as predators. These snakes have evolved to have stripes because raptors, long tailed weasels, and badgers are less likely to eat snakes with red, black, and yellow stripes

7. Know defining characteristics of algae. aquatic, photosynthetic (i.e., chloroplast-containing), Algae can be multicellular or unicellular.

Once the snakes are caught, they go through a few different processes. First, they have their venom removed from

The ring-neck snake has a yellow ring on its neck, and its backside's body color varies between gray, blue, greenish-gray,

The snake in question is a Western Rat Snake, which is non-venomous. You can find it just about anywhere in central North America. But, it is an especially common snake to find in Texas. This little guy just happens to have a unique scale pattern that resembles sunglasses and a mustache.

Also referred to as the water moccasin, the bite is more harmful and deadly than that of the copperhead, but does not lead to death. That much, anyway. It is more aggressive than the copperhead, but only bites when it is touched. More aggressive reputation and strikes a ready to bite pose. The snake can get up to six feet long.

Another species worth mentioning are the clown snakes. They are huge herbivore snakes that are up to twenty feet long. They have extremely hard scales that need a tremendous amount of force to be broken, and they also have large flat teeth. The teeth usually so large that the snakes look like they’re smiling, and their scales are very bright with a variety of colors.The snake seem very harmless with their large grin and rainbow scales,

Animals have adapted many different methods to avoid being eaten by predators. Some animals may secrete poison from their bodies to deter predators so they taste bad and others may have spines, or other defensive mechanisms to signal to predators they are dangerous. Stripes on snakes such as coral snakes indicate a venomous individual and to signal any potential predator they are ready to fight back. However, animals that are more or less defenseless are more vulnerable, especially if they are full of nutrients and a hungry predator is nearby. Therefore they need to outsmart the potential predators to avoid death.

“Other countries may boast of this and that, but nobody can touch the United States for poisonous snakes. We have about twenty species, most of them deadly, and Europe has only five or six, none of them are much good. We have fifteen kinds of Rattlesnakes alone and nobody else has even one (There is a species in Central and South America, but it probably came from the United States)” ~Will Cuppy Neotropical Rattlesnakes are very distinct and dangerous snakes, mainly because of their habitat, diet, and venom.

The Pelamis platurus/Yellow bellied sea snake, has a head is narrow, and has an entire head shield. The posture is less than half a diameter, and they have 23-47 body scales, and 264-406 ventral scales. Their most common size is 1m, and they are bilateral. Their colors are black on their backs, and yellow on their stomachs and sometimes they have black spots. They are also Bilateral.

The Gaboon viper is the largest species of viper in the world. They can grow up to 6 feet in length and weigh 25 pounds! Thats a big snake! While they may seem imposing they are actually known to be rather docile. Fortunately, there haven’t been many incidents where Gaboon Vipers have bitten people and hardly and fatalities. They are very fascinating snakes and

Snakeheads are an aquatic fish that live in freshwater streams, rivers, wetlands, or ponds. They prefer low moving to stagnant waters. Snakeheads can survive the cold winters and low oxygen environment. Some snakeheads are capable of breathing atmospheric oxygen and may be able to jump out of the water to be found on terrestrial land near aquatic systems. During the spawning season, northern snakehead fish prefer shallow waters with macrophyte cover (Lapointe et al. 2010). Nests are made by first clearing an area and then weaving aquatic vegetation into a column to hold and protect eggs.

The evolution of how snakes reproduce by bearing live offspring will be discussed by determining, the evolutionary pathway of live birth, viviparity, egg laying birth, oviparity and giving live birth but being kept in the womb in eggs until being ready to hatch, ovoviviparity. Discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of each reproduction method will be determined. The objective of this paper is to discuss the factors that have contributed to the evolution of snakes being viviparous.