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Thursday, August 2, 2012

World’s weirdest snakes



You probably didn’t encounter a situation where you are face to face with a snake, only if you was a wild life expert, bear in mind that there are over 2700 kind of them, you might also think that all of them are poisonous, in matter fact they are not,  so in this topic we are about to see five wired kind of  them.

1-Pareas Iwasakii: 


this one lives in Japan, famous of its relatively huge head and wide jaws, his main food is snails.







2-Atractaspis: 

also known as “stiletto”, ”Mole Viper” and "Burrowing Asp”, found in Africa, it is highly venomous and lives in the soil, this one does not open his jaws to when willing to release its  poison, but it has a hidden fangs which come out  when he wants to inject his prey before digesting.


3-Scolecophidians:




also known as blind snakes, are non-venomous snake have a worm like shape with his mouth beneath his head, it ranges in size from 10-100 cm it feeds on soil insects.





4- Eunectes Murinus: 



one of the longest snakes in South America where it ranges for 16 to 30 ft. This reptile warps itself around the victim’s body and squeeze very hard not allowing it to breath causing death after that it swallows the prey living nothing behind.


5- 
Naja Ashei: 



one of the cobra's subfamily famous for its ability to spit poison, it usually targets the eyes in order to make the prey blind making it easy to catch, the naja ashei lives in Kenya with it body that reaches 9 ft. this one considered as one of the most dangerous snakes out there.  

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