what kind of tail do poisonous snakes have?
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How can you tell if snake is poisonous How can you tell what kind of snake you found, and if it is poisonous. With the exception of the Coral Snake (see pix), all poisonous snakes in the USA are pit vipers. This means the Copperhead, the Cottonmouth, and many species of rattlesnakes. These snakes are really fat, with big, fat heads. They have slits for pupils. The rattlesnakes have rattles on the end of their tails.
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Are Skinks Poisonous to Cats? A five-lined skink doesn't always have a blue tail. A persistent popular conviction in the southeastern United States maintains that the five-lined skink or blue-tailed lizard is poisonous to cats.The scientific and veterinary communities, meanwhile, remain divided on this issue. The lizard with the bright blue tail, like the Tar Baby, don' say nuffin'. persistent popular conviction in the southeastern United States maintains that the five-lined skink or blue-tailed lizard is poisonous to cats. The scientific and veterinary communities, meanwhile, remain divided on this issue.
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How to Differentiate Between Poisonous Snakes and Non Poisonous Snakes How to Differentiate Between Poisonous Snakes and Non Poisonous Snakes. Some snakes harm their prey by injecting venom through their fangs; some of this venom can be harmful to humans, resulting in what we often think of as poisoning...
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snake Any of numerous meat-eating reptiles having a long narrow body with no legs, often just one lung, and a forked tongue. The jaws of a snake come apart and the body can expand to swallow prey that is much thicker than the snake itself. Some snakes have venom glands and sharp fangs that can give a poisonous bite.
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- A venomous (poisonous) snake bite is a bite or a puncture wound made by a snake that is capable of injecting, secreting, or spitting a toxin into the penetrated skin wound or, mucus membranes or the eyes where the toxin can be absorbed. In North America, there are about 25 species of snakes able to secrete toxin.
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Snake Anatomy Basically two types of scales are on a snake. Its top and sides are generally covered by smaller scales. These can juxtapose or overlap like shingles on a roof. The bottom of the snake is covered by short but very wide scales that look like rungs on a ladder. These special scales are called scutes.
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- A. Snake has vertical pupils and heat sensing pits --------- Click Here. B. Snake has round pupils and no heat sensing pits ------- Click Here. Acknowledgements: This online snake identification key is based on the identification key by Joe Mitchell as found in his book - Mitchell, Joseph C. 1994.
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How to Identify a Venomous Snake Know the snakes. There are four different types of venomous snakes in the United States: cottonmouths, rattlesnakes, copperheads and coral snakes. 2. Cottonmouths. The cottonmouths have elliptical pupils and range in color from black to green. They have a white stripe along the side of their heads.
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Snakes That Shake Their Tail When Confronted Rattlesnakes represent the pinnacle of tail-shaking evolution. The snakes’ namesake appendage is formed from a collection of horny, interlocking segments that are loosely attached to one another. Born with a single, rounded rattle segment called a button, rattlesnakes add a new segment each time they shed their skin.
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How to Identify Venomous Snakes (US) 1 If a snake has a true rattle on the end of it’s tail, it’s a Rattlesnake – venomous! 2  Some venomous snake in the US will have a small depression on their faces between their nostrils and their eyes called a ‘pit’ which is used to sense the heat of their prey.3  These snakes are known as pit vipers. The Coral snake, being so small, makes this hard to spot. 2  If a snake has a true rattle on the end of it’s tail, it’s a Rattlesnake – venomous! 3  Some venomous snake in the US will have a small depression on their faces between their nostrils and their eyes called a ‘pit’ which is used to sense the heat of their prey.
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- A Rattlesnake cannot be aged simply by counting the number of rattles on its tail. The tip of the tail of a new born Rattlesnake ends in a smooth rounded, slightly pear-shaped, button, which is the first segment of the future rattle. As the young snake grows it sheds its skin, usually several times a year.
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Coral snake Most species of coral snake are small in size. North American species average around 3 feet (91 cm) in length, but specimens of up to 5 feet (150 cm) or slightly larger have been reported. Aquatic species have flattened tails acting as a fin, aiding in swimming.
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Snakes: Facts Snakes: Facts. Snake Basics. Snakes are vertebrates — that means they have a skeleton, which in the case of snakes is mostly a skull and lots and lots of rib bones. They do not have ears as most of us think of an ear. They do have a sensory ear bone, called the columella, which detects vibrations.
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How To Tell if a Snake is Venomous How To Tell if a Snake is Venomous. It's impossible to tell for sure if a snake is venomous, or as some people say, poisonous, just by looking at certain features. There are three major myths people seem to believe in: 1) MYTH: It had a triangular head! FACT: Pretty much all snakes, like 99%, have triangular heads. It's true that the venomous pit vipers have VERY broad heads, but then again, these are very fat snakes in general. 2) MYTH: It had a pattern! FACT: A lot of snakes have patterns. And some venomous ones don't have any pattern.
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How can you tell if snake is poisonous The rules for telling if a snake is venomous or not have to do with coloration, pupil shape, head shape, and location of heat-sensing pits. Most of the poisonous snakes in North America are what we refer to as pit vipers. Pit vipers get that name because of the heat-sensing pits beneath their eyes.
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How Does Snake Venom Affect the Human Body Rear fanged snakes such as boomslangs and vine snakes have venom that destroys blood cells and thins the blood. The early symptoms of a bite from a rear fanged snake include headaches, nausea, diarrhea, lethargy, mental disorientation, bruising and bleeding at the site and from all body openings.
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Common garter snake The saliva of a common garter snake may be toxic to amphibians and other small animals. Garter snakes were researched and studies show they have a mild venom in their saliva. For humans, a bite is not dangerous, though it may cause slight itching, burning, and/or swelling.
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- Unlike eye pupil shape and undertail scaling, the anal plate scaling can not be used to identify a venomous snake. The anal plate is the scale covering the anal vent. It occurs at the end of the single belly scales which all snakes have.
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Is there any other snake that rattles its tail besides a rattle snake? Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: There are numerous North American snakes which shake their tail if they feel threatened, most of which are harmless. Copperheads and cottonmouths are two venomous snakes which shake their tails like a rattlesnake. Some of the harmless snakes which do this are rat snakes and corn snakes, king snakes, gopher snakes and bull snakes, to name a few. Source(s): madsnakeman · 5 years ago.
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- July 15, 2010. 1  Several skink species of the genus Plestiodon have blue tails as juveniles, leading people to call them blue-tail lizards. Some veterinarians, scientists and laypersons suspect these lizards are toxic to animals -- particularly cats -- but no direct evidence demonstrates that these skinks are toxic.
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- In addition to mouth-gaping, water moccasins will often. rapidly vibrate their tail when agitated or threatened. Although several other non-venomous snakes also. exhibit this behavior (black racers, for example), water. snakes do not. Pattern. The two most common water snakes in Georgia, top.
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Critter Catalog Common garter snakes are infected by a parasitic nematode that lives in the tissues of their tail. Snakes with this condition often have shortened or stubby tails. The nematodes live part of their lifecycle in small aquatic crustaceans and in amphibian larvae. The snakes are infected when they eat the amphibian larvae.
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- rattlesnake - Children's Encyclopedia (Ages 8-11) Rattlesnakes are poisonous snakes that have rattles in their tails. A rattlesnake shakes its rattle to threaten, or warn off, other animals. A rattlesnake is a type of poisonous snake that shakes a rattle on the end of its tail to warn off other animals.
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Basic Facts About Snakes Often observed flicking its tongue, snakes use their forked tongue to smell the air. Snakes are ectotherms, meaning they must regulate their body temperature externally by sunning themselves or retreating to cool, shaded areas. Snakes hibernate during the winter. Snakes must shed their skin three to six times per year.
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Chrysopelea : This flying snake species reaches up to three feet in length and is popular in the European pet trade. Their bodies are black, but covered in rich green scales. Clusters of red, orange, and yellow-coloured scales in the shape of flower petals line the dorsal area from the base of the neck to the tail. This flying snake species reaches up to three feet in length and is popular in the European pet trade. Their bodies are black, but covered in rich green scales. Clusters of red, orange, and yellow-coloured scales in the shape of flower petals line the dorsal area from the base of the neck to the tail.