Tiger Snake: Australia's Biological Venom

which venomous snake is best known? Yep, you guessed it, the King Cobra (or as scientists call it Ophiophagus Hannah or snake-eater!!). Did you know that King Cobra are the only snake to lay eggs that they guard with all their life . They can also raise ⅓ of there body off the ground. They raise their body of the ground to make themselves look bigger to scare off enemies. The also hold a world record for longest tongue and they are not the most venomous snake in the world? They just eject the most venom into their prey.

Have you ever heard of the dangerous Burmese python? If you have not, Burmese pythons are one of the most vicious snakes in the world. They have very dominant jaws that can open five times its own head and are capable of developing to an enormous length of twenty-three feet and a weight of two hundred pounds! Burmese pythons are as large as a telephone pole! To kill their prey, they grasp the victim with their back-curving teeth. When the victim tries to escape, it only sinks deeper into the python’s wrath. The python coils its gigantic and tough body around the animal, squeezes it until it dies, and eats the animal whole! They have a beautiful pattern on their skin and they have a fast and rapid growth rate. These pythons generally have a submissive disposition.

The Burmese python is a very powerful and extraordinary animal. This huge reptile is among the largest snakes in the world. This gigantic snake is capable of growing to twenty-three feet and a weight of two hundred pounds. These exotic animals are carnivores and usually, survive eating smaller mammals. This is no ordinary snake, it has no venom but has other deadly features. They have back-curving teeth that help clench their prey and the more the animal struggles, the tighter it gets. The Burmese python wraps itself around its food and squeezes until it is dead. This snake swallows its dinner whole. Somehow, people have thought this was a better pet than the family dog and went out to find one. Soon after that, they must have learned otherwise.

Fatal snake attacks in Australia have risen from 2 to 5 deaths in 2013. The controversy with this is however is that these

Owning a king cobra was quite the experience. As a young person, I have always had a fear of snakes, but as a child I was always around them. Hailing from India and Southeast Asia, king cobras are one of the deadliest snakes in the world. Venomous, they can kill a man in thirty minutes or less. These snakes can grow to be quite large, growing up to be 18 feet long at its largest. King Cobras sometimes will strike unprovoked. This is yet another reason why they should not be kept as pets. All snakes are cold-blooded. This means that they can’t warm themselves up from the inside of their bodies. They need an external source of warmth. Normally, this external source is the sun. However, having owned one as a pet, the external source of warmth

The Northern Water Snake (Nerodia sipedon) is a medium sized, stout-bodied reptile found throughout eastern Northern America and as far north as southern Ontario (Brown and Weatherhead, 2000). The color of the northern water snake can vary from brown to gray and can have brown, red or black band marks found throughout their bodies. The Northern Water Snake is a nonvenomous species but if disrupted can inflict a painful bite that produces a musky smell (Schwarts et al., 2002). The northern water snake also exhibits sexual dimorphism in which the female is larger than the male (Bauman and Metter, 1977; Schwarts et al., 2002).

The Lycosidae uses its chelicerae to hold its prey before using its venomous fangs into paralysing it. (Nicholas, 2011) Similarly, snakes inject venom quickly into its prey and waits for it to immobilise before digesting it, this adaptation prevents preys from escaping and increases its chance of survival.

Moisture off of leaves is their primary source of drinking water. While some species prefer the canopy of the tropical forests, others may live just a few feet off the ground. The home that the Tree Viper lives in is mostly like a big forest filled with lots of plants and big trees.

A Belcher sea snakes venom is 100xs more toxic than other snakes. Did u know a Belcher sea snake don’t have gills. If it bits you four times you’ll only get poisoned ones.

This “cocktail” has coevolved to target the snake’s prey of choice (Margres etc., 165). Over time, natural selection typically causes these venoms to become slightly different among species in different populations. This occurs because a prey animal with a gene that resists a snake’s venom would be favored by natural selection, which would prompt an evolutionary response from the snake to make alterations to its venom to combat this resistance (Aiyar, Raeka). This results in distinct predator-prey co-adaptations, which leads to great diversity among regions and the concentration of venom proteins (Margres etc., 167). This is evident in populations of the Eastern diamondback. “For example, two venom components, including one known to cause paralysis in prey, are found at high levels in the Northernmost populations, and were completely absent in the snakes from Caladesi Island, near Tampa” (Aiyar, Raeka). However, an exception to this pattern has been

Africa, Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, Indonesia). Cobras like to live in areas with bodies of water due to their magnificent skill of swimming. These snakes have unique variations of defenses, such as great sense of smell and night vision for hunting prey, their color that allows them to blend in with their surroundings, and their poisonous venom that can either be spit at an animal or bitten by the cobra itself. Another example of a cobra’s defense is their hoods. These hoods are formed from the ribs in the neck being flattened out. Cobra only raise their hoods when they feel threatened, and when they are about to

The brown tree snake (boiga irregularis) is an organism that has provoked havoc in the recent years. Adults can reach up to 10 feet in length compared to the 4 feet snakes that other islands have. These nocturnal animals inhabit trees, shrubs, and forests. They are mildly venomous, and the venom is used, along with constriction, in order to kill prey.

One of the main threats to the Eastern Hog-nosed snake is the lack of public awareness regarding their fascinating behaviour and their habitat requirements. In many places in Ontario, the destruction of suitable habitat is cause for concern. These snakes are completely harmless, but their bizarre defence technique can be confused with a dangerous display. When threatened, hog-nosed snakes will rear their head, flatten their neck to look like a cobra, and hiss loudly. If this display is not effective, the snake will harmlessly strike at the intruder with its mouth closed. The Eastern Hog-nosed snake has developed these techniques that resemble venomous snake activity as a defence mechanism to ward off predators. As a last resort the snake will

Burmese python’s grow rapidly, are excellent tree climbers when young, and are known as one of the largest snakes on Earth. “They are also excellent swimmers, and can stay submerged for up to 30 minutes before surfacing for air (National Geographic).” On average, they can reach up to lengths of 23 feet, and a weight of 200 pounds; they also have a large diameter. “Average life span in the wild: 20 to 25 years (National Geographic)”

The environment of snakes differ depending on what type of snake it is. The environment of the Black Tailed rattlesnake differs from most snakes as well as any other. This species occupies a wide range of Southwest United States, Arizona, Texas, and Mexico, in a wide variety of biotic communities. These snakes are more abundant in woodlands than any other lands but are also found in other places. It's common to find this snake above flat lands, in/on hills or around mountainous terrains.