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Snake I love you Managed by the "Mammoth Reptiles and Amphibians Conservation Trust" Our motive is to spread awareness. "Snakes are the most misunderstood creatures".

This page is a part of "The Mammoth Reptiles and Amphibians conservation trust India" and is managed by the same.. Our organization is trying to create a "Reptile Friendly
World" By performing different activities through which we intend to change the beliefs of the upcoming
generations about the snakes and demolish the misconceptions about snakes. In our activities we especially deal with kids,u

niversity students and people residing in villages get up
close to learn and see the snakes for what they really are. Snakes are one of the world's most successful groups of animals. They live on every continent but Antarctica, and
number about 3,000 different kinds of species. Secretive by nature, snakes stay away from people as much
as they can. Mammoth reptiles and amphibians conservation trust India a.k.a. Mammoth Group is performing different activities
in every snake season (which is May-November) through which we are trying to spread awareness about the snakes
in schools, universities and villages. India is a country where most misconceptions and myths about snakes exists
which is the main reason behind the killing of snakes. But we are trying our best to remove such misconceptions by our awareness activities and rescuing the snakes before the are killed. There is one thing to be kept in mind "Handling venomous reptiles is a very unforgivable job that requires proper training and lots of
experience, One simple mistake can be the difference between life and death. There are no venomous snakes with training wheels.. Please never try it.." We always need your help and support, and are always ready to help and support you (By any possible and available means).

Snakes are now helping us save human lives so lets not take their lives anymore. The discovery of an orally inactive pep...
24/03/2017

Snakes are now helping us save human lives so lets not take their lives anymore.

The discovery of an orally inactive peptide from snake venom established the important role of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors in regulating blood pressure. This led to the development of Captopril, the first ACE inhibitor. When the adverse effects of Captopril became apparent new derivates were designed. Then after the discovery of two active sites of ACE: N-domain and C-domain, the development of domain-specific ACE inhibitors began.

(CNN)They grow up to one meter in length and kill their prey using injections of venom.

Once the venom takes effect, victims black out from a drop in blood pressure, leaving them trapped and ready to be eaten -- head-first.
This is the feeding habit of the Brazilian pit viper, a snake found in the Amazon basin and forests of Brazil, whose venom is the source of one of the most commonly prescribed drugs for hypertension (abnormally high blood pressure) -- captopril.

"This [snake venom] opened up a completely new class of medication," says Zoltan Takacs, founder of the World Toxin Bank project, referring to a class of medications known as angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, now used to treat more than 40 million people worldwide.
Approved by the FDA in 1981, captopril is not a new drug, but its approval pushed the idea that venoms could be used to create modern medicines.
The field of venom-based medicine has flourished ever since and teams across the world are now exploring the most remote of animals in search of potent drugs that could emerge from their highly evolved venom.

Thanks for reading.

The "Kimberly Death Adder" is the most recently discovered snake specie in Western Australia. The snake, Acanthophis cry...
22/11/2015

The "Kimberly Death Adder" is the most recently discovered snake specie in Western Australia.

The snake, Acanthophis cryptamydros, has a diamond-shaped head and unpigmented scales on its belly.

Researchers from the Western Australian Museum and Bangor University in the UK made the find while surveying snakes in the North West.

“It looks like populations of death adders in general are declining in the area,” says Simon Maddock, the PhD student at the Natural History Museum and University College London.

“And there are records of them eating these poisonous cane toads. It’s potentially a big threat.”

He believes the new adder is probably rare.

Of Australia’s 200 known species of snake, more than half are venomous but only about 25 are deadly, according to the Australian Museum.

Please apply breaks for a slithering mate..! Thanks,
13/07/2015

Please apply breaks for a slithering mate..! Thanks,

Piebald Python - Piebald is a recessive trait that is partially un-pigmented with variable color and pattern mutations. ...
01/01/2015

Piebald Python - Piebald is a recessive trait that is partially un-pigmented with variable color and pattern mutations. Piebalds express an unusual cloud-like pattern unseen in any other base-morph. The amount of white is not indicative of its parents’ color. For instance, a 90% white piebald bred with a 90% piebald, may not produce 90% white offspring. The amount of white is typically a random occurrence. Pieds are a color and pattern mutation with an aberrant body pattern while the head is typically normal looking. Although some have confused ringers with pieds, there are some distinct differences

Eryx conicusCommon names: rough-scaled sand boa, rough-tailed sand boa.Adults may attain a total length 3 feet 3 inches ...
06/12/2014

Eryx conicus
Common names: rough-scaled sand boa, rough-tailed sand boa.

Adults may attain a total length 3 feet 3 inches (99 cm), which includes a tail 3 inches (76 mm) long.

The anterior maxillary and mandibular teeth are longer than the posterior. The head is covered with small scales. The eye is small with a vertical pupil. The dorsal scales are small and keeled. The tail is pointed, not or but very slightly prehensile.

The rostral scale is twice as broad as long, slightly prominent, without an angular horizontal edge. The top of the head is covered with small obtusely keeled scales, except for the nasals and internasals which are enlarged. Interorbitals: 8 to 10. Circumorbitals: 10 to 15. The eye is separated from the labials by one or two rows of scales. Supralabial scales: 12 to 14. Dorsal scales tubercularly keeled, in 40 to 49 rows. Ventral scales: 162-186. The a**l scale is single. Subcaudals: 17-24.

The anterior dorsal scales are only feebly keeled, but these keels increase in size posteriorly to the point that they become so heavily keeled that it can make a squirming specimen really painful to handle. This also makes it look as if the front and rear ends belong to markedly different animals.

Dorsally, the color pattern consists of a broad zigzag band or a series of dark brown blotches on a yellowish or brownish grey ground color. The belly is uniform white.

In India it can be mistaken at first glance for either the Indian python, Python m. molurus, or the deadly Russell's viper, Daboia russelii.

Active at night, it feeds on worms and small mammals.

Boiga is a large genus of mildly venomous, opisthoglyphous or rear-fanged, colubrid snakes typically known as the cat-ey...
24/11/2014

Boiga is a large genus of mildly venomous, opisthoglyphous or rear-fanged, colubrid snakes typically known as the cat-eyed snakes or just cat snakes. They are primarily found throughout southeast Asia, India and Australia, but due to their extremely hardy nature and adaptability have spread to many other suitable habitats around the world. There are 34 recognized species in the genus.

Cat snakes are long-bodied snakes with large heads and large eyes. They vary greatly in pattern and color. Many species have banding, but some are spotted and some are solid-colored. Colors are normally black, brown, or green with white or yellow accents.

Invasive species:
Boiga irregularis in particular has been federally banned in the United States because of its effect by accidentally being introduced to the island of Guam. Some time during the 1950s, these snakes (or possibly a single female with eggs) reached the island, possibly having hidden in imported plant pots. The island of Guam lacks native snakes or predators that can deal with snakes the size and aggressiveness of Boiga irregularis. As a result, they have bred unchecked as an invasive species, and began consuming the island's bird life in extreme numbers. Currently, dozens of bird species have been completely eradicated from the island, many species that were found nowhere else on earth, and the snake has reached astonishing population densities, reported to be as high as 15,000 snakes per square mile. In addition to devouring the native fauna, this species will routinely crawl into power transformers, and, unfortunately for all involved, this typically results in both an electrocuted snake and substantial blackouts.

Species of Boiga:
Boiga andamanensis (Wall, 1909) - Andaman cat snake
Boiga angulata (W. Peters, 1861) - Leyte cat snake
Boiga barnesii (Günther, 1869) - Barnes' cat snake
Boiga beddomei (Wall, 1909) - Beddome's cat snake
Boiga bengkuluensis Orlov, Kudryavtzev, Ryabov & Shumakov, 2003
Boiga blandingii (Hallowell, 1844) - Blanding's tree snake
Boiga bourreti Tillack, Ziegler & Le Khac Quyet, 2004
Boiga ceylonensis (Günther, 1858) - Sri Lanka cat snake
Boiga cyanea (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) - green cat snake
Boiga cynodon (F. Boie, 1827) - dog-toothed cat snake
Boiga dendrophila (F. Boie, 1827) - gold-ringed cat snake or mangrove snake
Boiga dendrophila annectens (Boulenger, 1896)
Boiga dendrophila dendrophila (F. Boie, 1827)
Boiga dendrophila divergens Taylor, 1922
Boiga dendrophila gemmicincta (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854)
Boiga dendrophila latifasciata (Boulenger, 1896)
Boiga dendrophila levitoni Gaulke, Demegillo & Vogel, 2005
Boiga dendrophila melanota (Boulenger, 1896)
Boiga dendrophila multicincta (Boulenger, 1896)
Boiga dendrophila occidentalis Brongersma, 1934
Boiga dightoni (Boulenger, 1894) - Pirmad cat snake
Boiga drapiezii (H. Boie & F. Boie, 1827) - white-spotted cat snake
Boiga forsteni (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) - Forsten's cat snake
Boiga gokool (Gray, 1835) - arrowback tree snake
Boiga guangxiensis Wen, 1998
Boiga irregularis (Merrem, 1802) - brown tree snake
Boiga jaspidea (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) - jasper cat snake
Boiga kraepelini (Stejneger, 1902) - Kelung cat snake
Boiga multifasciata (Blyth, 1861) - many-banded cat snake
Boiga multomaculata (F. Boie, 1827) - many-spotted cat snake
Boiga nigriceps (Günther, 1863) - black-headed cat snake
Boiga nuchalis (Günther, 1875) - Ashahar's cat snake
Boiga ochracea (Günther, 1868) - tawny cat snake
Boiga philippina (W. Peters, 1867) - Philippine cat snake
Boiga pulverulenta (Fischer, 1856) - Fischer's cat snake
Boiga quincunciata (Wall, 1908)
Boiga ranawanei Samarawickrama, Samarawickrama, Wijesena, & Orlov, 2006 (2005) - Ranawana's golden cat snake
Boiga saengsomi Nutphand, 1985 - banded cat snake
Boiga schultzei Taylor, 1923 - Schultz's blunt-headed tree snake
Boiga siamensis (Nootpand, 1971) - gray cat snake
Boiga tanahjampeana Orlov & Ryabov, 2002
Boiga trigonata (Schneider, 1802) - Indian gamma snake
Boiga trigonata trigonata (Schneider, 1802)
Boiga trigonata melanocephala (Annandale, 1904)
Boiga wallachi Das, 1998 - Nicobar cat snake

Mine is the green keelback (macropisthodon plumbicolor)
20/11/2014

Mine is the green keelback (macropisthodon plumbicolor)

The Aniliidae are a monotypic family created for the monotypic genus Anilius that contains the single species A. scytale...
06/11/2014

The Aniliidae are a monotypic family created for the monotypic genus Anilius that contains the single species A. scytale. Common names include false coral snake and pipe snake. It is found in South America. This snake possesses a vestigial pelvic girdle that is visible as a pair of cloacal spurs. It is ovoviviparous. Its diet consists mainly of amphibians and other reptiles. Currently, two subspecies are recognized, including the typical form described here.

This species is found in Amazonian South America, the Guianas, and Trinidad and Tobago. It is a moderate-sized snake attaining a size of about 70 cm (27 in) in length. It is reported to be ovoviviparous and feeds on beetles, caecilians (burrowing amphibians), amphisbaenids (legless lizards), small fossorial snakes, fish, and frogs. It has a cylindrical body of uniform diameter and a very short tail; it is brightly banded in red and black (but without yellow bands); reduced eyes lie beneath large head scales. It is considered to be the snake that most resembles the original and ancestral snake condition, such as a lizard-like skull .

Bungarus candidus, commonly known as the Malayan krait or blue krait, is a species of krait, a venomous elapid snake.The...
05/11/2014

Bungarus candidus, commonly known as the Malayan krait or blue krait, is a species of krait, a venomous elapid snake.
The Malayan krait may attain a total length of 108 cm (about 3.5 ft), with a tail 16 cm (6.3 in) long.

Dorsally, it has a pattern of 27-34 dark-brown, black, or bluish-black crossbands on the body and tail, which are narrowed and rounded on the sides. The first crossband is continuous with the dark color of the head. The dark crossbands are separated by broad, yellowish-white interspaces, which may be spotted with black. Ventrally, it is uniformly white.

The smooth dorsal scales are arranged in 15 rows, with the vertebral row much enlarged. The ventrals number 195-237; the a**l plate is entire; and the single (undivided) subcaudals are 37-56 in number.

Venom:
In mice, the IV LD50 for this species is 0.1 mg/kg. Blue Krait's venom is lethal 50% even after administration of antivenom; without antivenom it is 70% lethal for humans.

Baby trinket snake. Coelognathus helena.
04/11/2014

Baby trinket snake. Coelognathus helena.

The green vine snake is diurnal and mildly venomous. The reptile normally feeds on frogs and lizards using its binocular...
31/10/2014

The green vine snake is diurnal and mildly venomous. The reptile normally feeds on frogs and lizards using its binocular vision to hunt. They are slow moving, relying on camouflaging as a vine in foliage. The snake expands its body when disturbed to show a black and white scale marking. Also, they may open their mouth in threat display and point their head in the direction of the perceived threat. There is a widespread myth in parts of southern India that the species uses its pointed head to blind its human victims.

The species is viviparous, giving birth to young that grow within the body of the mother, enclosed within the egg membrane. They may be capable of delayed fertilization (parthenogenesis is rare but not unknown in snakes) as a female in the London zoo kept in isolation from August, 1885 gave birth in August, 1888. The venom is mild and causes swelling. Symptoms will subside within three days.

Chrysopelea, or more commonly known as the flying snake, is a genus that belongs to the family Colubridae. Flying snakes...
29/10/2014

Chrysopelea, or more commonly known as the flying snake, is a genus that belongs to the family Colubridae. Flying snakes are mildly venomous,[1] though the venom is only dangerous to their small prey. Their range is in Southeast Asia (the mainland (Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos), Greater and Lesser Sundas, Maluku, and the Philippines), southernmost China, India, and Sri Lanka.

Gliders:
Chrysopelea is also known by its common name "flying snake". It climbs using ridge scales along its belly, pushing against rough bark surface of tree trunks, allowing it to move vertically up a tree. Upon reaching the end of a tree's branch, the snake continues moving until its tail dangles from the branch's end. It then makes a J-shape bend, leans forward to select the level of inclination it wishes to use to control its flight path, as well as selecting a desired landing area. Once it decides on a destination, it propels itself by thrusting its body up and away from the tree, sucking in its abdomen and flaring out its ribs to turn its body into a "pseudo concave wing", all the while making a continual serpentine motion of lateral undulation parallel to the ground to stabilise its direction in midair in order to land safely.

The combination of sucking in its stomach and making a motion of lateral undulation in the air makes it possible for the snake to glide in the air, where it also manages to save energy compared to travel on the ground and dodge earth-bound predators. The concave wing that a snake creates in sucking in its stomach flattens its body to up to twice its width from the back of the head to the a**l vent, which is close to the end of the snake's tail, causes the cross section of the snake's body to resemble the cross section of a frisbee or flying disc. When a flying disc spins in the air, the designed cross sectional concavity causes increased air pressure under the centre of the disc, causing lift for the disc to fly. A snake continuously moves in lateral undulation to create the same effect of increased air pressure underneath its arched body to glide. Flying snakes are able to glide better than flying squirrels and other gliding animals, despite the lack of limbs, wings, or any other wing-like projections, gliding through the forest and jungle it inhabits with the distance being as great as 100 m. Their destination is mostly predicted by ballistics; however, they can exercise some in-flight attitude control by "slithering" in the air.

Their ability to glide has been an object of interest for physicists and the United States Department of Defense in recent years, and studies continue to be made on what other, more subtle, factors contribute to their flight. According to recent research conducted by the University of Chicago, scientists discovered a correlation between size and gliding ability, in which smaller flying snakes were able to glide longer distances horizontally. According to a research performed by Professor Jake Socha at Virginia Tech, these snakes can change the shape of their body in order to produce aerodynamic forces so they can glide in the air. Scientists are hopeful that this research will lead to design robots which can glide in the air from one place to another.

Diet:
Chrysopelea are diurnal, which means they hunt during the day. They prey upon lizards, frogs, birds and bats.

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