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Venomous Snakes

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( This post was last modified: 02-13-2019, 08:51 PM by Sanju )

This is not a movie...





Planet Earth II, back in 2016 captured these snakes hunting newly hatched baby iguanas. Since then, I can’t think of a more heart less animal.

The Galápagos racer (Pseudalsophis biserialis or Philodryas biserialis) is a colubrid snake in the genus Pseudalsophis that is endemic to the Galápagos Islands. It is a mildly venomous constrictor and is considered not aggressive and harmless to humans.

The iguana video shows an annual ritual on Fernandina, one of the Galápagos Islands. Marine iguanas — named for their defining swimming ability — hatch from buried eggs and must immediately traverse a stretch of beach thick with predators, in this case scores of hungry racer snakes. In this scene, one plucky iguana was set upon by a swarm of snakes, only to miraculously wriggle free and scrabble up the surrounding rocks, serpents nipping fruitlessly at its heels.

As long as the iguana don't movie, Snake can't detect, but if the iguana baby moves, all the snakes lunge on to the running iguana like real life hollywood haunting snake movies... Brutal...

According to the director, the rest of footage was so heart-wrenching it could not be show on the screen. Most of the iguanas don’t make it.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/anim...t-earth-ii
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@Sanju :

About #106. what a great video ! With an happy end ! I love it...

Other great videos ! But if you don't like snakes... You understand me !






An other video like the yours: two iguanas attacked by very numerous snakes in Turkey:





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( This post was last modified: 02-14-2019, 10:06 AM by Sanju )

Saw the two videos before. :) But, thanks my friend @Spalea

(02-14-2019, 12:53 AM)Spalea Wrote: But if you don't like snakes
They are my favorite, I don't just like them, I LOVE them. :)
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@Sanju :

About #108: you love snakes ? Good ! I cannot say the same, but I find them fascinating, undoubtedly. But sadly victim of their reputation.

In front of your tremendous video, after having seen it, I simply wanted to warn some sensitive people.
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(02-14-2019, 12:21 PM)Spalea Wrote: victim of their reputation
what? you had bitten by snake?
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(02-14-2019, 12:24 PM)Sanju Wrote:
(02-14-2019, 12:21 PM)Spalea Wrote: victim of their reputation
what? you had bitten by snake?

I didn't speak about me. I simply say that, here, people don't want to argue or discuss about snakes. Snakes are blasted creatures, and when you mention their usefulness and their ecological part, they refuse to speak further.

You know the split, the cleavage mammals/reptiles ( more, without legs as concerns the snakes !). People accept to listen to you when you're pleading the case of mammals, but in the case of snakes...
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@Spalea 
Yes, I can understand. Even in this forum, most of the time, threads are about mammals like big cats and bears and most of the members are fans of them only, they are no animal or nature lovers (as a whole not being picky) similar to outside world.

Only few, people in the field of biology (me) only love animals as whole. Every orgaism from PPLO to giant Sequoiadendron giganteum all organisms has ecological role in biosphere. All are equal inluding the semi-living virus, viriods and prions. In this forum particularly, invertebrates including insects are totally neglected.
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@Sanju: you could have reached a great agrement with @Tshokwane. He loved the spiders and insects. You can take a look at his spider topic...

https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-spiders...ght=spider

@Ngala loved the snakes as you did:

https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-asian-p...es+of+Asia

Otherwise, I'm quite agree with you, no one wild organism is useless. Every living organism has a role to play.
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(02-14-2019, 01:18 PM)Spalea Wrote: @Sanju: you could have reached a great agrement with @Tshokwane. He loved the spiders and insects. You can take a look at his spider topic...

https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-spiders...ght=spider

@Ngala loved the snakes as you did:

https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-asian-p...es+of+Asia

Otherwise, I'm quite agree with you, no one wild organism is useless. Every living organism has a role to play.

I agree, mosquitoes, spiders and flies have role to get smashed every time when on sight Wink
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(02-14-2019, 01:28 PM)Shadow Wrote: I agree, mosquitoes, spiders and flies have role to get smashed every time when on sight Wink

Lol, right.

Mosquitoes and Flies, I hate them but I love them. Grin Ha Ha 
It is because, they are the one of the fewest predators (not predators but play similar role as pathogen carrier means "the cause" for death) to the humans that are left on earth to check the "True" breeding rats/cockroaches of the world "THE HUMANS" population who are the biggest pest to the mother Earth "Biosphere" since, the planet formation in the solar system leading organisms including himself to Sixth Mass Extinction or "The Holocene Extinction or Anthropogencic Extinction of this Anthropocene Epoch".

But I still hate them as much I love them for doing that great ecological role of human population controlling coz when they bite, the irritating feeling is inexpressible when mosquito saliva comes in contact with our skin during piercing into the tissue to extract blood and transmit disease, because I'm a two legged walking ape too who belong to the race which is destroying planet natural cycles and over consuming resources.

Do you know? There are about 2 millions mosquitoes in my home and while I'm texting, I killed 10 mosquitoes that bit me. ouch! Joking So that's why I hate them and love them.

See our how our Snakes (including non-venomous) are killing humans every year, such a great job in saving earth...


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Apart from that we kill ourselves too! LOL. Good job.

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Quote:"when need turns to Greed, our extinction happens. lol"

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Common Kukri snake or Banded kukri (Oligodon arnensis or Simotes arnensis)

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Distribution of Simotes arnensis (1886)
Internet Archive Book Images - Image from page 960 of "Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society" (1886)

Location : Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh.

Video credits : @d_maheshbabu
In Coromandel international limited a documented by Ganesh Pallela
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Dark Black Mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) basking in a tree. Highly venomous.

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This sequence shows an immature banded rock rattlesnake Crotalus lepidus klauberi from Arizona that struck a large centipede Scolopendra polymorpha a few centimeters dustal to its head, the rattlesnake killed bad ate the centipede with out any problem, it was not affected by its venom aoaratus.
Book Rattlesnake (Manny Rubio)

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An aroused Western Diamondback (Crotalus atrox) stands fully prepared to defend itself. Taken from the book Rattlesnakes (Manny Rubio)
Pictures of Crotalus atrox skull from my collection.

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A series of skulls show the sequence of mouth opening and gang erecting during the strike of Prairie Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis virosis) At the point of impact the trust drives the fully erect sharply pointed fangs into the body of the prey with an inflexible stabbing motion 

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