SNAKES
Reptile     -      Vertebrate     -     Carnivore

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CORAL SNAKE

BLACK MAMBA

PARADISE TREE SNAKE

Male   ..............................  Snake
Female   .......................... Snake
Young   ............................ Snakelet.   
             Hatchlet (newly hatched)
             Neonate (newborn)  

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SIMILE

1. As mean as a snake
   

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IDIOMS, METAPHORS AND EXPRESSIONS

1. A snake in the grass
   
2. Snakes and Ladders
3. To scotch the snake
4. To nourish a snake in one's bosom
   
5. Once a snake, always a snake
   

A SNAKE SKELETON

CORN SNAKE

Snakes …

• Are predators and scavengers 
• All ten species of the most venomous snakes live in Australia
• Eat amphibians, crustaceans, fish, insects, other reptiles, birds, eggs and mammals
• Are found on every continent except Antarctica
• Don't have eyelids and they have internal ears
• Are covered in scales
• Snakeskin is smooth and dry
• Shed their skins a number of times a year and each shedding can last a few days
• Smell with their tongues
• Cannot blink and don't have eyelids
• All snakes can swim and can stay under water for up to an hour
• Always keep their eyes open, even when they are asleep
• The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mambo snake is over 95%
• the Black Mamba is not black.  It gets its name from the colour of the inside of its mouth
• The Burmese python's heart grows by 40% after a meal
• Its stomach acid can digest bones and teeth, but not fur or hair
• Baby Rattlesnakes are born in August and September
• The African Rock Python can survive 2 years without eating
• The Paradise Tree Snake flies (falls) from tree to tree.  It sucks in its belly and makes a U-shape with the length of its body, creating its own parachute.  
• Cobras are able to kill with a bite as soon as they are born
• Cobras only need to eat once every couple of months
• There are no terrestrial snakes in New Zealand, although there are sea snakes
• Sea snakes are the most poisonous snakes in the world
• The oldest known snake fossil had four feet
• The Boa Constrictor monitors its victim's heart and stops squeezing when the victim stops beating

 
There are over 2,000 species of snakes

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COLLECTIVE NOUNS
Adders
1.    A sun of adders

Cobras:

1. A quiver of cobras

Rattlesnakes:
1.    A rhumba of rattlesnakes

Snakes - general:

1. A bed of snakes
2. A den of snakes
   
3. A knot of snakes
4. A nest of snakes
   
5. A pit of snakes
6. A tangle of snakes
7. A trogle of snakes
8. A slither of snakes

Vipers:

1. A den of vipers
2. A generation of vipers
3. A nest of vipers

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ADDER

GRASS SNAKE

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INDIAN RUSSEL'S VIPER

A CARAMEL BURMESE PYTHON

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