Dangerous Texas Essay

What is the color of an olive, likes to be in water, and is the most interesting animal at the zoo? Cottonmouths, water moccasins, a snake that has a lot of venom. All of the senses this snake has is outrageous, this snake has over 10 senses which makes them a very cool animal and is also very interesting. These creatures have some very weird physical qualities, like their feeding habits, these snakes can fit more than one animal in their stomach. These 6 foot snakes come from all over the world, they like wet and moist places. In the United States they like Alabama and Florida because it is wet their. The physical characteristics are very amazing on these animals. These snakes only have one lung and just a spine and are very long. Dangerous

Since this snake have a lot of venom, they carry 142 mg of venom, they mostly use their venom to kill prey, they kill small prey, like birds, toads. They sneak up on prey them attack them.When they use their venom on a small animal it destroys small animals, when the venom destroys the tissue, the animals can breath after that. If these snakes were to bite a human he/she could die or become very ill (Feldman 17). If cottonmouths saliva were to get on you your skin, your skin would become dead and fall off. When these 6 foot killers get in a fight they don't constrict, they use their venom which gives them an opportunity to win. When they get venom on someone they don’t spit it like some other snakes, the only way it gets on is if it bites you, or if you touch another animal that is dead. So be on the watch for these snakes and their killer venom (Cottonmouth 6). These snakes are hemotoxic, which destroys red blood cells, also when a cottonmouth bites a small animal its hemotoxic venom makes the animals blood poisonous (Reptiles

These snakes will eat each other including their family. Cottonmouths can fit more than one animal in their belly the size of two rats, and when they eat, they don’t even chew they just swallow whole. (Cottonmouth 5). These animals eat various animals as prey, like small animal, like amphibians. When these animals hunt they hunt in the water, also when Cottonmouth’s go hunting they always use their venom as a advantage and they do not constrict like other snakes. Another reason they call these animals water moccasins is because they spend most of their life in water than land (Feldman