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skillz121:
Op check dis out

Thanks. Though most popular websites used the word poisonous instead of venomous.

czarina:
Sorry it got to you that way.. It's useless to me doesn't mean it will be same for all others. Clear and colorful images by the way even though I scrolled right past them (its a compliment)

thanks

czarina:
Very pointless darling. I hate snakes and like so many others, my first reaction would be to kill any one I see, harmless or not. So you see, any article on identifying them would be utterly useless to me.

Lol I get you. But it took a lot to write the article. Please don't call it useless

czarina:
So let's see, we're supposed stop, examine and then pat the non-poisonous ones on the head when we see them abi?

The article is for enlightenment. Now you know what you didn't know.

Olalan:
To majority all snakes are poisonous.
BTW after a snake bite who remembers to find the snake to know it's type rather the first thing that comes to mind is getting treated for the bite

Lol. It's vital we know the differences Sha.

Lalasticlala food is ready

Snakes are scary. The thought of a snake nearby is enough to drive some people crazy. We all run from snakes because we fear their poisonous bites. What if not all snake bites are poisonous? If so, how can we identify a snake based on the differences between poisonous and non poisonous snakes? Read this article to satisfy your curiosity.

Differences between poisonous and non poisonous snakes

Head
Heads of Poisonous snakes are mostly triangular (because their necks are broad) while the heads of non poisonous snakes are more flattened than that of poisonous ones.

Colour
Poisonous snakes have bright colours. We could say pretty hurts. Non poisonous snakes aren't as brightly coloured.

Heat-sensitive pit
Poisonous snakes have a heat-sensitive pit between their eyes and nostrils. This pit is used to locate warm blooded animals like mammals. Non poisonous snakes lack such pits. This is one of the major differences between poisonous and non poisonous snakes

Rattle
All rattlesnakes are poisonous therefore, if you see a rattle or hear its sound, know that it's a poisonous snake.
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Head scales
In poisonous snakes, the scales on top of their heads are usually small. Non poisonous snakes however have larger scales on top of their heads

Visibility while swimming
When poisonous snakes swim, they're fully visible because they swim at the surface of the water. On the other hand, non poisonous snakes swim partly or fully invisible because they swim deep.

Teeth
Poisonous snakes have Fangs (Large Maxillary teeth with groves). you can identify fangs by seeing two long teeth in the front. Non poisonous snakes lack fangs, their teeth are even and uniform. This is one of the major differences between poisonous and non poisonous snakes
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Bite marks
I just hope you've not been bitten by a snake. You could examine snake bitten animals though. The bite mark of poisonous snakes look like twin punctures because of the fangs. Non poisonous snakes' bite marks don't appear as two punctures.

Examples of poisonous snakes
Black Mamba
King cobra
Eastern brown snake
Coastal taipan
Inland taipan
Many-branded krait
Tiger snake
Boomslang
Mamushi
E.t.c
https://modernsurvivalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/four-deadly-poisonous-snakes-in-america.jpg

Examples of non poisonous snakes
Northern water snake
Four-lined snake
Eastern garter snake
Emerald tree boa
Rough green snake
Bull snake
black rat snake
Milk snake
Python
Anaconda
E.t.c
https://themysteriousworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/rough-green-snake.jpg

Now that you know some differences between poisonous and non poisonous snakes
So long as you aren't a zoologist, please stay clear from snakes. Don't go experimenting. Stay safe. View and share the photo below. It is a summarised list of differences.
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SOURCE:
https://www.allbioconcerns.com/2018/06/poisonous-and-non-poisonous-snakes.html
ABC; All Biological Concerns

MISEDUCATIONS:
in that case your beef is with diildos and vibrators. and women are who you should be talking to.

Lol bro. All join

MISEDUCATIONS:
i have been fucking my hand so...

Your hand isn't part of an inanimate object. Your hand is part of you (living). That's the difference. Can you bleep the sex doll's hand?

Lalasticlala comman answer o

They're both wrong. They're both immoral. They're both unnatural. Why do people say okay to something inanimate but yet don't agree to someone living?


My answer:
Nigerians are just hypocrites... They want what they want whether good or bad and they don't want others to want what they (the others) want whether good or bad.


I know many people will come and attack me

johnnyn1:
Cc: Lalasticlala, Fynestboi come see ooh.
Igbo Amaka Dem.

OP. Work on your Anglais

You're seeing warri and still saying igbo. Are you well? You are well? Well you are? Are well you?

For your info that part of Nigeria consists of the Urhobo, Isoko, Itsekiri and Ijaw..

P0intBlank:
That won't work. You still have some squares.

This is how it should look like

You try

Plastics are found wherever humans are found. They're everywhere and they're the most common form of pollutants in land and water pollution. Plastic wastes affects both man and animals through various ways. Read this article to learn how theses wastes affects us, why and how to recycle plastics.

What are plastics
Plastics are both simple and complex. From house hold items like water bottles, plates, toys, chairs and so on to more complex items like bullet proof glass, DVDs and so on. Plastics can defined as solids which can be moulded and are flexible by heat depending on the thickness and type. Plastics are non-biodegradable so they can be found so many years later in same shape unless they're removed. This means that plastics must be recycled or reused else they stay as pollutants and are going no where.

A few facts about plastics
1. The word ‘plastic’ comes from 'plastikos', a Greek word meaning ‘capable of being shaped and moulded
2. Credit and Debit cards were first called plastic money in 1969
3. Plastics make up a large percent of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch which is a very large floating landfill of garbage in the Pacific
4. Around 5 trillion plastic bags are produced yearly. That's about 160,000 plastic bags made every second
5. Plastics aren't biodegradable instead they're photo-degradable (meaning they're degraded by light) which is why we see some plastics changing their colour after a long time
6. It'll take around 700 years for plastics to start degrading and around 1000 years to be fully degraded
7. After breaking down, plastics remain toxic. They break down into smaller toxic bits which are harmful to the environment
8. Plastic bags are produced using petroleum, natural gas and other chemicals meaning that they're toxic from production
9. Most marine animal mistake plastics for food. This causes their death
10. A sperm whale was found beached in California in 2008. It died due to more than 22 kilos of plastic in its stomach

The facts above makes you sad. Right? Does this mean that all hopes are lost and there may not be any solution to our plastic problems? Well, there are solutions for us but we all have to work together as one to solve this problem. The solutions are Reducing, Reusing and Recycling.

Reusing

Plastic bags can be used as drop cloths
When painters are working, you'll notice that some of the paints drop on the floor. Spreading plastic bags across the work area can save the painters the stress of washing the ground after work

Lids and covers of plastic bottles have lots of uses
1. Counters so children can learn quick maths
2. Building blocks for children
3. Decorations. You could paint the top with your desired colour or artwork and use the lids as decorations to your walls or wherever applicable

Funnels
Use old plastic bottles as funnels. Most Nigerians use plastic bottles when they put petrol into their generators

Poop scoop
Plastic bags can be used to scoop pet poops instead of rolls.

Toys
Plastics have different ways they can used as toys. Here are a few photos

https://www.budgetdumpster.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/recycle-shampoo-bottle-airplane.jpg
Recycled Shampoo Bottle Airplane

https://www.budgetdumpster.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/plastic-bottle-reuse-jetpack.jpg
Plastic Bottle Jetpack for Kids

https://www.budgetdumpster.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/laundry-detergent-bottle-toy-car.jpg
Laundry Detergent Bottle Toy Car

Sprinklers
Plastic bottles can be used as sprinklers by poking holes into them and fixing them at the end of water hoses.
https://www.budgetdumpster.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/diy-sprinkler-plastic-bottles.jpg
DIY Plastic Bottle Sprinkler

Plant Nursery
Plant Nursery is a place where seeds are germinated and grown into appropriate sizes before transported and planted in a more preferred location. You can use plastic bottles as grow cubes.
https://www.budgetdumpster.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2-liter-bottle-herb-garden.jpg
Grow cubes

Fuel containers
Instead of going to the market to buy containers to store fuel, use those containers from Oils (red, vegetable) you bought earlier.

Recycling and Down-cycling
Some countries are building recycling industries. Both governmental and private firms take recycling seriously. Plastic recycling means producing materials from old plastics (e.g a plastic chair can be recycled into other chairs, tables, etc) while down-cycling means producing materials of less quality from old plastic materials with greater qualities (e.g a plastic chair can be down-cycled into plastic bags or bottles). There are different processes of recycling. They include

Thermal depolymerization
Since plastics are produced from petroleum, the 'de' in depolymerization implies that petroleum can be manufactured from plastics

Heat compression
This implies gathering plastics of different types, heating and stirring them inside large rotating drums known as tumblers.

Other processes
There are other processes to recycle plastics like compatibilization which requires use of special chemical bridging agents compatibilizers to use plastics as carbon source to recycle scrap steels.

Reduce
The best solution to the plastic problem facing the world today is reducing. Plastic reducing can be defined as the actions we take to reduce the use (demand) of plastics therefore reducing the production (supply). Here are a few ways we can reduce

Reusing
Reusing plastics around us can reduce our demands for them. We could take our own bags to the market instead of requesting for new bags

Co-operation with shops that are going Eco friendly
Some shops may not give you plastic bags or may give you substitutes. Instead of complaining, let's know their reason and support it

Other ways
Instead of just throwing that plastic bag away, we could use it to carry other wastes. This will even reduce the amount of money we spend in buying waste bags

Conclusion
Plastic problem is worldwide issue we all need to solve. Applying the three Rs which are Reuse, Reduce and Recycle can help solve the plastic problem. Saving the world, apart from being a general issue, should also be a personal issue. Read What about the Earth? Why save it? What can we do? for the general Earth problem.

Source: ABC; All Biological Concerns
visit the source for the references

atoyebiv1:
What are you saying wanna compare Ui with uniport, it the first in Nigeria oh, what standard is it laying for others to follow

don't get me wrong am not comparing both. Am try to ask that if ui hasn't gone so high on fees, why uniport?

uniport pays above 100k for freshers and 45k for returning students.

Freshers in the department of Animal and Environmental Biology paid 118,500 this year so it's nothing new

[quote author=gfgddtgv post=66116249][/quote]what is lalasticlala waiting for?

Contingency means something which may happen. That is it may or may not happen. Contingency planning therefore means 'planning for the unexpected'. The word 'unexpected' should be enough reason why we should always plan ahead. To know more about having contingency plans, to make sure plans, read this article.

Importance of planning ahead

What you see, you take

When you don't plan, what you see, you take
Since, you failed to plan ahead, whatever happened unexpectedly may be a shocker to you, you may be confused and it'll surely take a while before you can control the situation.

When you plan ahead, tragedy of the unexpected would be reduced

Let's assume a company has been hoarding cash for emergency purposes and they were taken to the court for an error in one of their products. You'll see that even though there's tragedy, it won't be as severe as when they don't have any cash to solve cases like this.

Having contingency plans saves you from starting from the scratch again

In continuation with the aforementioned assumption, the company has very large probability of not been bankrupt when they hoard cash and/or plan for emergency situations. When you or your organisation don't plan ahead for the unexpected, you may be driving towards a pit.

You save a lot of resources

Time is money. When you plan ahead, you'll be saved lots of time, money, energy and other resources. Contingency planning may mean improvisation so although we may spend cash or other resources to solve an emergency problem, what we'd have lost supposing we didn't plan ahead would surely have been greater.

Readiness and/or expectancy

A woman is pregnant and has $1m, another woman is pregnant and has just $10,000. Both of them have shared joy which is the baby ~ Dr M.A.E Noutcha. Now they both know they're expecting a baby but they don't know if any unforeseen occurrence may spring up. What is certain is that they'll surely give birth to their babies so long as they're on the watch. That is readiness.

The points mentioned above surely encourages you to plan ahead and discourages you not to plan ahead. Now, how do we make contingency plans? Please keep reading

Having contingency plans. What to do

Nothing is new under the sun

Do not rely on your own understanding. When you're doing something new, meet people with experiences in that field and ask questions. Someone who asks questions never loses his/her way ~Ruona Favor. Meet these people so they show you problems that could arise and how to solve them.

Hoard cash

Cash hoarding means storing cash (by institutions) for different purposes like emergencies. If a company hoard cash, it has more chances of succeeding when emergencies arise.

Experience is the best teacher

A parable in pidgin is 'when yawa gas, eye go clear'(meaning when problem arise, you'll be more alert and smarter) implies that you learn from not just mistakes but also from the unexpected. You let experiences teach you and not punish you.
Experiences of other is a far better teacher
Why must you learn from tragedies that happen to you? Why can't you learn from others so you plan ahead and you become safe from their predicament? If a company with similar production with yours have a downfall, learn from their errors so your company would be better.

Be flexible

Don't be stiff. Don't be fully reliant on a particular believe. When you see the need the improving your plans, improve. Never feel that something is not important. The figure 1M is a sum of several smaller figures. Issues you feel are unimportant may give rise to a problem hard to control.

These and lots more are several ways to have contingency planning

This article was written by Elijah Rona of http://basicnaijaneeds.com elijahakwijoro@gmail.com

Iseoluwani:
CAPSLOCKED read this and use

Your head

someone cannot play with you again?

What a nation.

Where are the bodies?

We learn lessons from everything we encounter in life. We learn lessons from anything. How bout the least expected? Read this article to learn valuable lessons from the ones we can teach: children. The lessons from children are as cool as they sound.

10 lessons from children

Always be happy

Yes you may get sad but try as much as you can to maintain your cool. Children cry but in no time, they become happy again.

Always be optimistic

There is no bad news to a child. Children will always try to see a bright future. Being with children, you’ll feel their hope for the future. This is among the value lessons from children.

Improvise

Well, this is only applicable when you apply the preceding point. By the time you’re optimistic, you’ll find different routes to your goals when one route seems blocked. Children will always look for ways to play even if they are opposed.

Always forgive

When someone sins against you, don’t try to keep grudges against him/her. Always try as much as you can to forgive whoever sins against you. This is among the lessons from children that’ll make you to be more harmonic to your society

Select the people you’re with

No matter how cute, loving and approachable a child is, he/she wouldn’t allow just anyone to carry him/her. Children tend to know and stick with positive people. You should learn this from children. Stick with people who add value to you and not with negative people.

Love and respect the people around you

When you’ve found value in someone, express love and respect towards the person. There is no love that isn’t expressed out. Children are very obedient and submissive to people they love.

Ask questions

You know how children always ask questions. Questions like: why is the sky blue? Why are leaves green? Etc are asked by children simply because they want to know more. If ever you’re curious, don’t hide your curiosity. Asking questions is among the valuable lessons from children

Stay firm to your decision

If a child intends to do something, he/she would definitely do it. Even if other stuffs may distract a child, he/she would still do what he/she intended doing. We should copy this from children. Let your yes stay yes and act yes. Let your no stay no and act no

Adjust your step when the need arises

In addition, when children get corrected from doing something wrong they intended doing, they change. We should also learn this. We should not let ego to make us do what we’ll later regret. Take corrections

Stay cool

No matter what happens in life, keep your cool. Stay happy, play, keep being with positive people, smile and live a joy filled life.

These are what children teach us


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