Monday, September 15, 2014

The Different Types of Dog Sharks




                                        
                    The dog shark can change its color and hide its self from its predators the dog shark is known to swim at depths of 650 ft below the surface. It will hunt in packs like wolves the dog shark can grow up to 100 cm. The male dog shark can mature around 11 years and with its flat blunt teeth they can bite down on even the hardest prey, like crab and lobster they also eat shrimp worms and mollusks.


                 
 pack of dog shark
smooth dog shark 

Great hammerhead

Great hammerhead swimmingThe great hammer head can grow up to 20 feet but not all of them grow to be that size and the average size is 12 feet they have a whole 360 view with there hammer shaped heads. There eyes are on the sides of that hammer shaped head and there moth is under the head they are mostly lone but in packs.


                                                    the great hammerheads diet
sting ray
crab

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Tuesday, September 9, 2014

short fin mako shark

                 The mako shark can swim up to 43 mph and with there torpedo like body the are one of the fastest sharks in the sea. They mostly live in tropical waters and are known to attack people that are swimming they are aggressive feeders and they are about 7 or 10 degrees warmer than the water around them they are mostly at a depth of 490 feet and they can jump up to 20 feet high.watch

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Belcher Sea snake

Sea Snake

       The belcher sea snake can be found in mostly tropical waters like south east Asia and northern Australia their venom is so strong that it can kill 1000 men, just from just a few milligrams less than 1/4 of the bites contain venom. Most of the bites are just warnings most of them know we are to big to be pray. but when they feel that we are a threat they will attack and kill most of the people are fisher men that catch fish in there nets and sometimes the snakes get mixed in to the catch and some of the fishermen are bitten. there are many kinds of sea snakes in the world and they all will attack if you are treat to them. Sea snakes can stay under water for 2 hours . 

                                 Sea snake bite symptoms

        the bite from a sea snake effects will begin within 3 hours the symptoms include:

               .painful muscles 

               . blurry vision  
               . vomiting 
               . excessive saliva production 
               . paralysis in the legs 

                                     

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

spitting cobra

watch spitting cobra vs lion

     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