Snakes are long, flexible reptiles with no limbs. There are about 2,900 species of snakes, and nearly 400 of them are venomous. Snakes feed on termites, rodents, birds, frogs, small deer, reptiles, and even humans. These reptiles eat their prey whole and can swallow a carcass three times the diameter of their head.
Instructions
Step 1
Carpet python
The carpet python is the largest member of the Morelia genus, its length is 2-4 m in length and 15 kg in weight. The average length of an adult snake is usually about 2 m. Males, as a rule, are smaller than females - sometimes they are 4 times heavier.
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Colombian red-tailed boa constrictor
The average size of a mature female boa constrictor is 2-3, and that of a male - 1.5-2.5 m. In individuals living in captivity, it can be large (3.5-4 m).
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Bushmaster
The bushmaster is considered the largest venomous snake found near the Amazon basin (in the north of Costa Rica). These are large snakes of a reddish brown or pinkish gray hue, which reliably camouflage them in the forests.
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King Cobra
This cobra is considered the longest venomous snake in the world - from 5, 6 to 5, 7 m. These reptiles, which hunt mainly other snakes, live mainly in the forests of Southeast Asia, India, Indonesia and the Philippines. A young king cobra is on average 3 to 4 m in size and typically weighs about 6 kg. The largest snake specimen lived at the London Zoo.
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Amethyst Python
He holds the title of the largest non-venomous snake in Australia. The greatest length of the amethyst python is 8.5 meters.
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African python
The average length of an adult snake is 5.5 meters, and the maximum is 7.5 meters. Python is very aggressive, it will eat almost anything that fits in its mouth. As its name suggests, this snake lives in Africa.
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Burmese python
The average length of a mature python is about 4 meters, and the maximum (recorded) is 6 meters. The Burmese python is interesting to scientists because their females constantly twitch during incubation in order to increase the temperature of these.
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Reticulated python
He lives in Southeast Asia. The average length of a representative of this species is 5.5 meters, but the size of the largest recorded individual reached 10 meters.
Step 9
Green anaconda
The green anaconda is considered the second largest snake in the world. It is a semi-aquatic boa constrictor that lives in the swamps of South America. The average size of a mature individual is 4.5-5 meters, the weight can reach 90 kg (but for the heaviest representative of this species it was 250 kg). The size of the longest individual is 8.5 m.
Step 10
Titanoboa (extinct)
The length of titanoboa is more than 13m, it is comparable to the length of a bus. This snake lived in the tropical northeastern forests of Colombia 58-60 million years ago. The snake was so wide that its diameter was equal to the distance from the feet to the hips of a person. Scientists suggest that this snake weighed over 1 ton.
