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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
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Background info and claim Paragraph 1: The Burmese python is known to be a powerful animal and one of the largest snakes in the world. Their outstanding length of 23 feet and a weight up to 200 pounds. Pythons are carnivores and survive on small birds. The pythons have no venom but they have another way of killing their prey, they grab their prey, grab it with their teeth and then when the prey tries to pull away the teeth of the python dig into the animals skin. After that, the python wraps its long body around the animal until it dies.

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The short story "Badeye" by Ron Rash is about a son and a dad who have a love for snakes, but the mom (who is never named) constantly reminds them about the foreseen dangers of keeping one as a pet. As the story develops, the speakers' mother progressively gets more irrational about her fear of snakes. The son and father continue to defend their hobby of catching and keeping reptiles, while she (mom) is written off as overprotective and delusional as we can see in a direct quote from the story: "... so I kept these snakes in my room where, almost every night, they crawled out of their jars and into my mother's dreams." Throughout majority of the story, the mother is very vocal about her fear of snakes, however, there is a portion where she seems

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Would u like to learn about the python that is cause the everglades population to decrease this animal is the burmese python Burmese python is a magnificent and powerful animal.the burmese is native to the grassy marshes of southeast its the larges snakes in the world these snakes grow up to length of 23 ft and weight up to 200 lb . A burmese python have chemical receptor in their tongues and heat sensors in their jaw. A growing population of burmese python that are threatening the ecosystem in the florida everglades with no natural predator tens of thousand are estimated python are living in the everglades.

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The Burmese pythons are one of the world’s largest snakes. According to the article “Burmese Pythons: Not the Ideal Pet” it says: “Capable of growing to an astounding length of 23 feet and a weight of up to 200 pounds” Imagine a telephone pole, and then a snake as big around the middle as that pole. That’s the Burmese python. Also according to the article “Burmese Pythons: Not the Ideal Pet” it says: “Burmese pythons survive primarily on small birds and mammals. Although they have no venom, they have other, quite effective means of killing their prey” this means that Burmese pythons are carnivores, they do not have venom and they kill their prey with their back-curving teeth.

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According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, approximately 99,000 Burmese pythons were imported to the United States between 1996 and 2006, which is a problem because people keep them as pets and when they become too large they release them into the wild as they are not native to the Florida Everglades they are causing a threat to the animals and plants that are native to the Florida Everglades. Burmese pythons are predators that eat a variety of mammal and birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. Pythons in Florida have consumed prey as an adult American alligators. The Burmese python is one of the largest snakes in the world, it can reach lengths of up to seven meters and can weigh up to or above 90 kilograms. Hatchlings range in length from 50-80 centimeters and can more than double in size within the first year, which is another contributor to the increase of the Burmese Pythons being in the Everglades as the animal species can hatch up to 10-60 eggs at a time.

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Super-sized snake caught in Everglades National Park A large python, perhaps the second largest ever recovered from Everglades National Park, was captured by python research who often works within the park. The python caught in July was taken on the Shark Valley tram road and once extended was 18 feet and 3 inches long; that is only four inches off the record setting 18 foot 7 inches snake that was discovered in 2013. Whether this is a Florida record is unknown because only snakes captured inside the park are tracked officially.

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There is a terrible monster roaming the Everglades. This creature is capable of eating anything in its path. There are many ways, how is the presence of Burmese Pythons are changing the Everglades. These snakes have caused many problems. Although many solutions have been tried, nothing so far has worked.

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Think again Burmese Pythons are NOT the best pet if you don’t know how to care for it properly. First of all Burmese Pythons are one of the most deadly snakes in the world. “[Can grow] to an astounding length of 23 feet and a weight of 200 pounds” (Piven). Burmese Pythons are very unique, other than their outstanding length and weight, they kill their prey very different than most snakes. Burmese Pythons are constrictors.

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The main reason of this is mainly because they were associated with violence and revenge in many Native American cultures and they were barely associated with positive qualities. The Native Americans had nine snake gods and spirits, Awanyu (Pueblo), Coatlicue (Aztec) , Horned Serpents (Eastern tribes), Pitaskog (Abenaki), Quetzalcoatl (Aztec), Situlili (Hopi/Zuni), Snake-Woman (Caddo), Tie-snake (Southeast tribes) , Unktehi (Lakota Indian Serpent). In Sioux and Blackfoot legends Unhcegila is a snake or serpent-like monster that was responsible for a countless amount of unexplained disappearances and deaths. It was said that it could swallow a human in one piece or squash the human with its weight alone. If Unhcegila 's slime touched the ground it passed over the ground, the ground would become infertile and its slime made flesh rot away.

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