Intersexxsherry: Before i used to be dead scared of serpents until i started educating myself about them, learnt so much about snakes, how to understand their mode of interaction with humans and also how to develop a better bond with snakes. Also how to conquer your phobia for Snakes, snake bites antivenom treatment incase you get bitten.. The Do's and the Don't..
You can call me a snake girl now...
What are snakes?
First, Snakes are legless, limbless, carnivorous vertebrates belonging to the Class Reptilia and sub order Serpentes. They have varieties of Species. The species could be classified as Venomous and Non venomous.
Snake's Behaviour.
Snakes do not have legs so slither through their body.. Snakes do have five main senses, they can hear, smell, see and and touch.. Snake's smell with a special organ connected on the roof of their mouth. They do not use their nostrils to smell but use to breathe. They lack ear drums too, so cannot hear sounds but have inner ear structures with cochlea that enables them to hear vibrations only as they slither through the ground alongside with their jaws.. Snakes have poor eyesight and cannot see well but their vision can boost when they feel threatened. They are dichromatic and can only see two lights, blue and green. Mostly do not see well in daytime.
How do Snakes Feed?
Snakes have a small belly and do not eat much. They can like once or twice a week. The younger ones tend to eat more than the older ones. Snakes do not have teeth so they swallow their food wholely. Their mouth is built in such a way that the the jaw is wider than the body so it enables them to open their mouth wide and swallow food wholely without chewing it..
Where do Snakes live? Snakes mostly live in thick bushes, forests.
Can you keep snakes as pet or form a good bond with snakes?
The answer is No, because snakes do not have good intellectual ability so cannot feel love, emotion or companionship . Snakes do not have good memory and cannot even recognize their owners, sometimes they use their sense of smell to identify their owners. Snakes are very solitary, shy animals and they hate being cuddled or petted by humans. They will continue seeing humans as a threat and will strike in self defense.. Some snake species can tolerate being petted by humans.
Do snakes enjoy you keeping them in your homes?
The answer is No. You can care for Snakes by providing them with food, water, maybe take them into your home for sometime and return them back to their natural habitat. Your home can never replicate their natural habitat. Even when they enter people's home, they hide in dark places and always try to escape because most snakes cannot survive in homes for a long time due to lack of moisture and food.
What Smells do Snakes Hate?
Some certain smell Snake's hate and it keeps them away from your homes. Snakes hate the smell of ammonia, gas, vinegar, ginger, cinnamon, onion and these smells will always repulse them away from getting into your homes.
How do Snakes enter homes and what attracts them into homes?
They can enter your homes in search of food, moisture, snakes hide in dark corners of your homes to retain moisture. Some certain smell and waste products may attract them into your home, such as smell of fish, insects, rodent, leaf piles.. Watering also attracts Snakes, especially when you water your garden a lot. Also Snakes enter through open holes when they are searching for rodents. Snakes chase rodents a lot and enter through holes, broken pipes while searching or chasing rodents. They can enter your toilets if your pipe is broken under the suckaway..
How and why do snakes strike humans?
When you come across a snake, do not try to kill it but instead you leave it alone and wait for it to slither away. Trying to kill a snake makes it aggressive and it strikes back in self defense and Snakes strike with so much speed. If you leave a snake alone, there are great chances it is not going to hurt you. Incase you are walking at night, always use a torchlight so you don't step on a snake by mistake because by stepping on it makes it aggressive and it will strike . Also use torchlight at night when entering toilets, darkplaces or bathroom so you don't mistakenly sit or step on a snake..
Venomous and Non Venomous Snake.
Many Snake species are non venomous but can still bite. Venomous snakes species may include Cobra, viper, mambas, adders etc and Non-Venonous snake species may include Python, house snake, Anaconda, green snake etc. The Venomous snake can bite you without releasing venom. Not all Venomous Snakes bite and release venom. The amount of potent venom a snake releases when it bites is what can kill a human if not given medical attention on time. Most snake venom can last like 5- 25 minutes while you seek for immediate medical treatment.
Treatment for Snake bites.
Using Traditional method to treat snake bites can help or make it worse depending on the specie of Snake that bit you . Antivenoms are the best method for treating snake bite and they come in two types; The Monovalent and Polyvalent .. The Monovalent are mostly for Boomslang snake bite and the Polyvalent anti venom is used for treatment of bites from many venomous snake species.
Importance of Snakes.
Snakes serve many importance in the ecosystem as they control pest population, chase rodents away, they maintain the biodiversity of earth and also serve as predator and prey in the ecosystem.
How to overcome your phobia for Snakes?
Snakes will never harm you if you leave them alone, they are more scared of humans than you are to them. Snakes only get aggressive when you try to kill them or step on them or try holding or catching them. Snakes are very shy and solitary animals. They don't know how to feel love or companionship. They have weak memory and cannot remember, they have poor eyesight and mostly use their sense of smell to detect their environment thats why they are always rolling out their tongue to smell.
What Snakes can you Keep as pet?
Some certain non venomous Snakes can tolerate being petted by humans such as the ball python.
Most Venomous snake.
But note; Non venomous snakes can still bite. The most venomous snake species noted till date is the black Mamba and Inland Tiapan. Still, many have survived bites from these venomous snake species when given medical treatment on time.
Longest and largest Snake in the world.
King cobra is recorded to be the longest Snake in the world. Large snakes such as the Anaconda and Pythons mostly kill their preys by constriction.
Contact Snake Catchers or charmers to get rid of snakes in your home.
KINGJAJA888: Nairalanders Pls Help a fellow brother with advice so I don't go the wrong route Pls. I'm about to purchase two plots of land at Omagwa Airport road PortHarcourt for 1.4M.
Pls My PortHarcourt people is it advisable? How promising is the environment in terms of development? Help Me with advice and opinions pls. I'm scared of making a wrong investment Pls. I feel it's too far. What do you think?
hello bro, if you did your research well you should know that omagwa and its enviros is the focus land investment area as e dey HOT so for Rivers state. Entero homes get estates their salvation ministry get estates other too its also near the new location of the university others
I need help with my predicament. I just discovered a lounge where I normally hang out to watch sports and chill. Apparently the lounge also has a Spa that is managed by this beautiful married lady who is a mother of 3 children that are in University and one in final year of secondary school. I started crushing on this woman for some time now and I cant seem to take my mind of her. She is a tall, dark stallion with nice hips, ass and a very sweet voice.
We got talking the moment I went to her Spa to make some inquiries about her spa services and whether she runs home service as well. Along the line, she gave me her contact details and we have been chatting frequently. The thing is that I am madly in love with her but I don't know how to express my feelings and desires towards her.
I don't intend snatching her from her husband but I just want to have a romantic relationship with her but don't know how I will go about it.
I am a graduate in my mid 20s from Leed City University Ibadan with a degree in Engineering. I don't usually have issues in getting women but this has posed much of a challenge to me because I am deeply in love with a married woman.
Thoughts of her sometimes drives me to masturbation and it's driving me nuts. Please I need help on this matter.
southniyikaye: Right now I feel like sharing my June 2020 to October 2021 story but nairalanders go sharperly say it's either dem swear for me or I no get sense or I get bad luck but one great lesson I learnt is, learn to keep your mouth shut and resist the urge to shalaye.. Under a year, I went from begging on nairaland to making more than 2million and back to zero balance again.. But we move. We must learn a lesson... We must keep moving till we succeed.. It was a hell of an experience.. If i was asked if I regret my decisions? The answer will be yes and no.. Am way past being depressed even though the situation almost took my life, I go heaven come back but here we are, lesson learnt, eye is totally opened and ideas full ground, na just blessing of God I dey wait for to proceed
We're so blessed in this country with little or no natural disasters. Na only man-made disasters de wahala us.
this has happen in abuja and eastern state before its called hailstone.occurs toward end of raining season there has been earth tremor before and in oyo at iseyin or so load noise coming from underground. lagos barbeach overflowing etc
Viking07: Lalasticlala, I am also interested in knowing why these fraudsters can't be tracked using their phone numbers? When you watch the crime channel (IDExtra) on DSTv, you'll see how these American cops track criminals with just a phone.
Why is our own case different?
you did not pay enough tis is nigeria
but if its stolen phone and involve death possible officer (army,navy,air force) death. it will be track within 24hours
envoymedia: Nigerian investigative journalist, Kemi Olunloyo has claimed that several names in the #EndsSARS panel report whom are believed to be victims Lekki Tollgate Killings are fictitious, IgbereTV reports.
She stated that she couldn't find condolence messages on the social media handles of the victims who should have a phone and internet access to Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
She also stated that none of of the victim's family members showed up.
Please just take it easy on your wife. The pressure on you is the same kind of pressure on her too.
Things are really hard this times in Nigeria, so we only have to be patient and try absorbing all the shocks okay.
I believe you are a good man, your wife is a good woman.
If She is into business which is a daily thing so, she should know how tough things are today and you both can work it out better. You both should have a honest discussion of what is on ground today.
Lastly try and be in your best mind and shape, eat food. Take care of yourself and be healthy.
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bragamycin: Good day fellow nairalanders, I am currently so vexed right now and pissed. I have been damn broke for a while due to the fact that I haven’t been getting lots of logistic jobs these days. I noticed that my personal fund has been going into the business to keep it moving and now that I have exhausted my options, I am being left with the worries of paying my workers month end, because they don’t care and they will collect their pay whether there is work or not.
Today early this morning a client paid her cumulative debt of 25000 into my account and I was smiling Cos I know that I will be able to pay one rider month end. However, to my greatest, it is on this same day that my riders have brake pad issues, the need to change oils and the most annoying of all is that my phone fell off my hand on this same day o, so 25k in 25k out, I no even see shawarma bUy inside the money Cos I had to immediately go nd fix the screen of my phone . SHEY NA JUJU BE THIS ? Cos I remember say pastors used to say to pray against this kind thing abi na VILLAGE PEOPLE abi Na just COINCIDENCE. Pls if have been in shoes , biko tell me ur experience
calculator123: So in this case, Wema wants to see him and not the other way around? Ever wondered why his account wasn't flagged to stop money laundering? Because rules are for the poor. When you're big, you're big. In all that getting, get money.
Money breeds respect, don't allow an old man tell you otherwise
hello do you know the meaning of money Laundering What is money laundering definition? Money laundering is the process by which the proceeds of crime are processed ('washed') through the financial system in an effort to disguise their illegal origin. Money laundering involves: an underlying, profit-making crime (e.g. tax evasion, fraud, theft, organised crime, drug trafficking, embezzlement);
Go to Epe, if it is the only job offer available for now. Instead of staying in lekki without a job, go to Epe and work there, later if a better offer comes from Lekki, you go to lekki. Country hard ooo, by all means start somewhere.
go to epe and during weekend visit ibeju lekki beaches to snap people at the beach.
Hemanwel: Reminds me of when I got a Brand Ambassador job that year, I thought I had arrived, cos of the calibre of people who were Brand Ambassadors to corporate organizations... To cut the long story short, when month ended and they paid me my salary, I was shocked with the alert I received.
DivergentThinka: I have tried to find as much information as possible on planting Afang leave, but I haven't found as much information as I would like. Information about Ugu is every where, but not Afang Please experienced farmers, I would appreciate pointers, as I believe there is a market for it, as its relatively scarce here.
go to village and in the forest find and uproot as many as you can find or find those that have it already and uproot and transplant. return back to base and replant close to a tree.
i did planted 10 it did well many years ago. I planted mine under uha tree.
but visitor no dey allow the leave rest. note when uprooting make sure you did not destroy the root
walkbrazil4k: I love music and I can't do without it and I always appreciate real music and even though I don't understand what the song is saying I would still listen to the song and this song called Gambia is one of the foreign songs that I love and I don't even understand what she is saying, I guess she is talking about Gambia, but the song is nice and great
DaInferno: My phone beeped last night, I saw this alert from NMFB, neither do I remember doing anything with them nor having an account number that end with the last digit. But the alert was sent to my number. Before you say my SIM is a new one, I have been using the sim card since 2007 and never changed it since then.
So can anyone explain this
did you collect covid 19 loan ?
if you did then its them national micro finance bank
A female student of Ambrose Alli University (AAU) has given an unexpected reaction to a public proposal by her boyfriend at their school as she bluntly refused the proposal and dished him a hot slap.
The incident reportedly happened at Ambrose Ali University Ekpoma in Edo state.
The young man could be seen kneeling down with a ring in his finger, asking the girl to marry him.
But she appeared irritated and was obviously in objection of the proposal even though onlookers cheered and urged her to say yes.
The lady was venting and pacing up to the point her boyfriend said he loves her and she responded with a slap on his face.
The video which has now gone viral on social media has sparked a lot of reactions with many complaining about the rampant cases of marriage proposal of late.
Pets / Re: Snake Phobia. (how To Conquer It) Understanding All About Snakes by AgricMaster: 6:01pm On Nov 27, 2021 
