Southern rubber boas are smooth, shiny and chocolate-brown snakes. Their colorations vary from olive-green to reddish, or tan. They have blunt tails that resembles a head and it allows them to grasp or hold objects so it can enable them to climb shrubs and small trees.
additionally their tails allows them to deflect attacks while feeding on their prey. Rubber boas are known for preying on deer mice, voles, shrews, etc. but some of their recent behavior shows that they will eat lizards, baby birds, baby bats and to a lesser extent snake eggs. They are excellent summers and are harmless to human, In fact when they are picked up they will curl up into a ball hiding its head and fooling its attackers with their head shaped
They are very undetectable snakes and spend most of the day under rocks or sometimes underground.
Flatwood Salamanders do not adapt very well to their environment, which is why they are endangered. One adaptation that the salamander has made would be that it uses crayfish burrows to live in. They also have adapted to use camouflage by making themselves grey and black, so that they can hide in shadows, and dark places. They have also learned to breed in isolated ponds without and predatory fish, so that they and their babies do not get eaten. Another adaptation that they have made would be that their eggs only hatch when wetlands
For the 6th writing, I have decided to list five facts about cottonmouth snakes or Agkistrodon piscivorus. The cottonmouth snake is the only venomous water snake in North America, when bitten the bite leads to painful and potentially fatal effects although they barely bite humans. The cottonmouth snake has various names such as the water moccasin, black moccasin, gaper, mangrove rattler, snap jaw, stub-tail snake, swamp lion, trap jaw, water mamba and water pilot but the name ‘cottonmouth’ comes from the white coloration around and inside the snake’s mouth. Cottonmouth snakes are a type of pit vipers, which means they have heat-sensing pits between the eyes and nostrils, according to the website “livescience.com” These pits allow the snake
The three spined stickleback fish has many unique traits. some of the most notable structural adaptive traits of this specie are the three spines and body armor. The three spines are sharp and located on the back forward of the dorsal fin. The lateral bony plates are located on each side of the body. These structural armors projecting from the back and pelvis can simultaneously flare out when the fish feels threatened as a defense against predatory vertebrates making it difficult for predators to swallow them.
The Legend of the Spring-Heeled Jack dates all the way back to the early 1800’s to be exact. Tthe first report was in 1837 as described in “ Mike Dash’s exhaustive history of the figure’s reported appearances” , the residents in a london neighborhood started reporting bizarre attacks. , Tthey said a “ghost” or “devil” was attacking primarily women;, the figure would ring a doorbell and when someone would answer it would ravage their clothes with its claws. , Theretheir were other reports of the figure just attacking people who were out walking the streets. , Tthroughout the year there were many similar reports of strange attacks.
The way that the use to defend themselves is by a toxin and changing color. They are not very good at blending in. they get their name from how they swim. Did you know there are 3,000 in the population of Spanish Dancers. They have a flat but oval body shape.
They are exotic species and it is making the pet stores get more money by selling them to pet owners. They are really hard to kill you have to cut off their head to kill them. In Source 1n it says, “To kill their prey, they first gapse it with their black- curving teeth.” People don’t know how many snakes there are in the Everglades so that is making it harder to catch. I think they need to get Indians to go hunt in the Everglades to catch them they should hunt in the dark and in the day.
These reptiles are causing problems due to displacing the native wildlife and throwing off the
For over 40 years the life and times of the Australian Bushranger, Ben Hall has held my imagination. My first introduction to the name Ben Hall came about by my father when on a long drive from our home in Queensland to our former Victorian home following my fathers service in Viet Nam, and our first opportunity as a family to visit my grandmothers and the wider family of Uncles, Auntys and Cousins, and to recover my sister who was holidaying at the family 's holiday home at Phillip Island. As for anyone who has taken the long road anywhere, a car ride of such distance could be tiresome, not with my father, who had a great interest in the early history of Australia and as well as a wider interest in world history. (something I have inherited) He was a collector of weapons from the earliest periods relating to our country and those which flooded the colony during the great gold rushes of the 1850 's - 1860 's, the Colts Revolvers, Lee Enfield Rifles, The Brown
At the bottom of Naple Island Gazette’s front page, I saw the headline: Manatee Habitat Threatened by Local Development. The article explained that a new housing development was planned for an area along the Okee River. Many of the properties would have docks in the river so owners could park their boats and have easy access out into the bay. I knew that the Okee River was the best place locally to spot manatees. They loved floating in the warm water and munching the thick sea grasses that cover the river bottom.
Malcolm Muggeridge, a British journalist, once commented to “Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.” What the journalist learned was that it is significant to have individualism instead of following the stream. In Jennifer Price’s essay, “The Plastic Flamingo: A Natural History,” Price gives a history about flamingo to emphasize the fact that Americans lack individualism. Price analyzes American culture and American mindset through flamingo by utilizing great diction, sarcastic tone, and examples to build up on her insight. Price begins her essay with excitement.
Red ear sliders are not going extinct. they are a very popular. their diet or food web consist of turtle pebbles, lettuce, and many different leaves. Red Ear Sliders also eat a lot of invertebrates such as earthworms and, crickets. My Red Ear Sliders loves rolly pollies and gold fish.
They will eat small insects such as mosquitoes, grasshoppers,
For example, in southwestern Arizona, T. o. luteola is commonly active during the summer monsoon (July through September) when humidity levels are relatively high as compared with other times of the year (Ornate box turtle, n.d.; Ernst & Lovich, 2009). While the eyes of the female desert box turtle have a yellowish to brown iris, the iris of the male is red, and the male’s tail is longer and thicker than that of the
Dlnr Hawaii has written that “Mongooses are opportunistic feeders that will eat birds, small mammals, reptiles, insects, fruits, and plants. They prey on the eggs and hatchlings of native ground nesting birds and endangered sea turtles. The small Indian mongoose has been blamed with the extinction of ground-nesting birds in Jamaica and Fiji and commonly kill birds, including 8 federally listed endangered Hawaiian birds, such as the Hawaiian crow (‘alalā), petrels (ʻuʻau) and Hawaiian goose (nēnē). This research explains that mongooses feed on native animals and eggs of native animals. Mongooses have caused a large number of deaths of native Hawaiian Sea Turtles and made extinct many indigenous