Snakes is one of the most common phobias
people have. It is quite understandable – some snakes are venomous, capable of killing us, so fearing them is actually just a matter of instinct. However, it would be unfair to think of snakes as slimy killers only. Snakes can be also viewed as amazing animals with incredible abilities. Did you
know, for example, that some snakes can fly? Or how about the snake that scares away predators by farting? To learn more about snakes, check out today’s post with 25 Shocking Facts about Snakes


25. Snakes live on every continent except
Antarctica and on most land masses.
Exceptions include some large islands,
such as Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, Hawaii, and New Zealand, as well as some small islands of the Atlantic and central Pacific Oceans.

24. Snakes range in size greatly - from the tiny, 10 cm (4 in) long thread snake to the giant reticulated python that can reach up to 7 m (23 ft) in length.

23. There are approximately 3,400 snake
species in the world, out of which only
about 600 are venomous. Out of those 600
venomous snakes, only 200 pose a serious
threat to humans.

22. Snakes have one of the highest
occurrences of polycephaly – a rare
condition of having more than one head.
There have been many cases of two-headed snakes. The heads might fight each other for food.

21. Snakes are believed to have evolved from four-legged reptilian ancestors, between 112 and 94 million years ago. Some snakes, such as pythons and boas, still have traces of back legs.

20. Snakes can live in almost any environment, ranging from jungles and deserts to lakes and mountains. Snakes have been actually found as high as 4,900 m (16,000 ft) in the Himalayas.

19. The muscles that cause a rattlesnake´s
rattle to shake are some of the fastest
known, firing 50 times per second on
average, sustained for up to 3 hours.

18. The bite of the black mamba, one of the
world´s most venomous snakes, can cause
collapse in humans within just 45 minutes.
Before antivenom was widely available, the
mortality rate from this snake´s bite was
nearly 100%.

17. Many snakes have highly mobile jaws that enable them to swallow prey much larger than their heads.

16. There is an island in Brazil, known as the
Snake Island, that arguably has the highest
occurrence of snakes in the world. It is
estimated that there is one snake on every
1 sq m (11 sq ft).

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Is it through that looking at a snake eye for eye can make one unconscious?

15. Native to tropical rainforests of South
America, the green anaconda is considered
the heaviest and largest snake in the world.
It can reportedly exceed 227 kg (500 lb) in
weight and reach almost 9 m (30 ft) in
length.

14. Also known as the western taipan, the
small-scaled snake, or the fierce snake, the
inland taipan is the most venomous snake
in the world. It is estimated that one bite
from this Australian snake possesses
enough lethality to kill at least 100 full
grown men.

13. Pit vipers, pythons, and some boas have
infrared-sensitive receptors in deep
grooves on the snout, which allows them
to "see" the radiated heat of warm-blooded
prey.

12. Venomous snakes kill about 90,000 people around the world each year. Yet, they are far from being the deadliest animals –
mosquitoes, for example, cause over a
million human deaths annually.

11. There is a genus commonly known as the
flying (or gliding) snakes. Native to
Southeast Asia, these snakes are capable
of gliding over distances as great as 100 m
(330 ft).

10. A snake’s fangs usually last only about 6–10 weeks. When a fang wears out, a new one grows in its place.

9. To accommodate their narrow bodies,
snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys)
appear one in front of the other instead of
side by side. Most snakes also have only
one functional lung.

8. When startled, frightened, or threatened,
the Sonoran coral snake (also known as the
Arizona coral snake) will hide its head
under its body and raise and tightly curl its
tail. While in this posture, it will then fart
noisily.

7. The decapitated head of a dead snake can
still bite even several hours after death. In
fact, such bites often contain large
amounts of venom.

6. Historically, snakebites were seen as a
means of execution in some cultures. In
medieval Europe, a form of capital
punishment was to throw people into
snake pits, leaving them to die from
multiple venomous bites.

I hate those things with passion.....

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5. Snakes do not have eyelids. Instead, they
have so called brille, a layer of transparent,
immovable disc-shaped skin or scale
covering the eyes for protection.

4. Some snakes can survive without food for
up to two years by reducing their energy
expenditure. One scientific study even
suggests that snakes can digest their own
hearts when starved for too long.

3. Most species of snakes lay eggs, and some
species are ovoviviparous (i.e. they retain
the eggs within their bodies until they are
ready to hatch), but it was recently found
out, that several species (such as the boa
constrictor and the green anaconda) are
fully viviparous (giving live births).

2. To keep from choking on large prey, a
snake will push the end of its trachea, or
windpipe, out of its mouth, similar to the
way a snorkel works.

1. All snakes are strictly carnivorous.
Depending on their size, however, their
prey differs considerably. The smallest
snakes feed on insects, snails, mice etc.,
while the largest snakes can kill and eat
anything from an antelope and a kangaroo
to a pig and even an alligator.

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stewatt:
Is it through that looking at a snake eye for eye can make one unconscious?

No.

teekrackz:
Op na pics remain for u

I have done that

Good one... But I need a job

26. As scary and deadly a snake is, one individual is a fan of this creature. He can't seems to be able to grapple with their beauty enough to the extent that, snake is probably the password to his gadgets and beloved forum. He is so obsessed with snake to the extent that, snake threads makes FP more than real news on nairaland!


A person who doesn't know that snake is the password to make LALASTICLALA to come view and push your thread to FP, is that one a Nairalander?

Mek I book space. Since it's a snake thread, it's definitely heading to the promise land Educative though

I hate snakes

My thread

lordraiden:
I hate snakes

even me??

phobia for snake is known as OPHIDIOPHOBIA

the green snake is beautiful

illicit:
phobia for snake is known as OPHIDIOPHOBIA

pls can you enlighten me better... I'll like to get rid of that nonsense called..(OPHIDIOPHOBIA)

I took every courage in me to open this thrash because of (OPHIDIOPHOBIA)

tell me how to overcome it
.

chybykee:
the green snake is beautiful

You can have it as a pet if your want.

They might be friendly

Snake movement iritate me.... I even hate snakes generally......... * 7. The decapitated head of a dead snake can
still bite even several hours after death. In
fact, such bites often contain large
amounts of venom.*** this really get me scared

Lala is dat U

I hate everything called snake.

On a side note, it is a taboo to eat two species of Snake in my clan - cobra and python.

Fp tins

Fvck snakes

I'm scared

plot bought

I so hate snakes. The annoying thing is they most likely will never become endangered because of how much they reproduce.

The inland taipan is d most vernomous

Snake thread? Lalasticlala disapoint me for once dont send this to the front page