God has created many amazing things on earth and in that one of the amazing reptile is Snake. Most of the people fear from snakes and some have an attraction towards snake to study them and their behaviour. There are more than 3,000 species of snakes in the world. Snakes are the beautiful creation of nature but are very dangerous. So, today we relate you with some Strange facts about Snake.
Strange facts about Snake
- There’s an Island in Brazil where civilians are restricted to visit because it has up to 5 snakes per square meter.
- The top ten deadliest snakes of world can be found in Australia.
- Snake charmers have clocked 725 species of poisonous snakes. In that group, only 250 are lethal to humans with just one bite.
- More people die due to bite of bees than bite of snakes.
- The decapitated head of a dead snake can still bite, even hours after of death. These types of bites usually, contain huge amounts of venom.
- Big pythons and Boa snakes have traces of back legs left over from millions of years of evolution when snakes started out as land lizards.
- It can take a snake up to five days to digest its last meal and in bigger snakes like an anaconda, that digestion can take period of weeks rather than days.
- A snake uses its forked tongue to smell. It can even smell in directions, kind of like smelling in stereo.
- Snakes can open their mouth up to 150 degrees.
- If a Black Mamba snake bite anyone then surety of death due to bite is 100%.
- The Titan boa snake lived 60 million years ago and is the largest, longest, and heaviest snake ever discovered.
- Snakes live everywhere on Earth except Ireland, Iceland, New Zealand, and the North and South Poles.
- Some animals, such as the Mongoose, have an immune system to tolerate snake venom.
- Only 70% of snakes lay eggs. The rest that lives in colder climates deliver live-birth baby snakes.
- One drop of the Beaked Sea Snake venom can kill 3 adult men.
- Snakes don’t have eyelids.
- Rattlesnake rattles are made of rings of keratin, which is the same material found in human hair and fingernails. A rattler will add a new ring each time it sheds its skin.
- Some snakes survive for up to two years without a meal.
- Snakes are immune to their own venom of the venom of close relatives, but not to the venom of other species of snakes.
So, these are some Strange facts about Snake.
