Wednesday, August 27, 2014

spitting cobra

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     The spitting cobra is a snake that can spit its venom in to the eyes of its attacker and after that the eyes of the attacker will burn the cocktail contains nerve poisons, and the eyes can go blind if not treated with water. the black neck cobra hits at least one eye and the Mozambique cobra hit their target every time, not all cobras spit their venom some have a specially modified fang with a small hole in it when the snake contracts its venom gland they inject their venom throw their fangs and at high pressure the fang is attached to a flap of skin and bone that opens when the cobra opens its mouth cobras spit there venom at a velocity of a water pistol the rang of the attack is about  4 to 8 feet the shot is fast enough that no human can evade it but the range is greater the bigger the snake.

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

The copper head




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           The copperheads venom is hemolytic it destroys the red corpuscles of the blood and releases the hemoglobin into the surrounding fluid the resultant hemorrhaging destroys the snakes normal prey mostly small mammals. They can be found in Texas,Oklahoma,Kansas,Missouri,Arkansas,Louisiana,Mississippi,Alabama and so on there habitats are mixed wood lands forests rocky arias and even in swamp like arias. The copperheads young are born alive rather than hatched from eggs.The copperhead is holds the largest amount of snake bites in the us each year thousands of documented cases of people injured every year and many pets like dogs and cats are bitten often many of these go unreported copperhead bites are rarely fatal to humans.You can find out if its male of female by the size of the body or the tail the females are longer than the males and the males tail is longer than the female. Scientists have found a chemical in the copperheads venom that can stop cancerous tumors.    
copperhead bite

Thursday, May 15, 2014

The black king snake

black king snake 

            The black king snake can reach sizes up to 82 inches long the black king snake is a good snake to have around they will eat the snakes that can be bad to have around. the king snakes diet is mostly made of other snakes and small or large rats or mice lizards turtles birds and eggs and rattle snakes.
   
            The black king snake will have yellow under markings and large round eyes with round pupils there is no info on how long they live in the wild but they can live up to 33 years in a home or zoo. Some king snakes may look like there deadly counterpart but  they are not look at the picture below and you can see that for the coral snake black is on yellow and for the scarlet king snake the red is on black that is how you can tell witch is bad and witch is good to have around.

all of the king snakes 

albino scarlet king snake 














Friday, April 25, 2014

the poison dart frog


     The poison dart frog is vary deadly and if eaten you will die soon the dart frog lives in rain forests and comes in many bright colors and the poison can kill 10 fully grown men, there are over 100 types of the poison dart frog the poison dart frog, is going extinct and they got there name from the local tribes of the rain forests they used the poison ,from the frog to make deadly darts ,and to get all of the poison out they poked holes in the frogs back and held it over a fire. The female is more wider than the male the poison dart frogs bright colors are a sign of danger, to the predators around the frog but some of the predators do not take the sign and pay the price.
eggs of the poison dart frog

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

The Caiman alligator



   The caiman can be found in rivers of the rain forest and they are mostly in south america. they caiman can be hunted by the big cats of the rain forest or even bull sharks that are living in the rain forests fresh water
black caiman 

The caiman can grow up to 13 feet long and the largest, on record is a black caiman that was 32 feet long,and that size beet the worlds largest fresh water gator by 11.75 feet and the size was 20.25 feet long the gators name was Lolong the gator was so big that it had to be pulled on land by 100 men and Lolong died of cardiac arrest around 8pm February/10/2013. The caiman's diet is catfish,piranhas,birds,fish and when they are the right size they will hunt on land and eat humans and livestock at night. the caiman dose not make a good pet unless you have the proper training to handle a caiman.

Friday, April 4, 2014

The Andaconda



The Andaconda is the biggest snake in the amazon and rain forests they can eat all kinds of food it can find that is made out of meat and the will even eat there own kind out of mating rites or a clam on a kill. the andaconda comes from the boa family and they will stay in slow moving rivers or streams, There are four types of andaconda and they are the green,the yellow , the dark spotted andaconda, and the Bolivian andaconda these are the four types of andacondas and they are all killers.
                                                       


                                                         Food that the andaconda eats 
andaconda

caiman
capybara

pig
turtles
birds
deer
   

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

African rock python

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The African rock python can grow to be able to eat a fully grown man and even a large gators.They eat lots of things they can find the have even been reported to eat lions and other large edible prays. They have eaten children that got to close or that when't for a walk and found a nest and the mother is never far away. The largest rock python found was 20 feet long and all rock pythons have a nasty reputation to up hold people
 keep them as pets and they take the risk of death,having a pet that can rap around you and crush your bones and kill you the rock python has been fund in florida,they are moving in to the homes and local pools and are eating the wild life of the ever glades and even the children.