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unusual facts about Snakes



Angul district

Reptiles like the Gharial, mugger crocodile, fresh water turtle and poisonous and non-poisonous snakes can also be sighted.

Asclepius

In honor of Asclepius, a particular type of non-venomous snake was often used in healing rituals, and these snakes — the Aesculapian Snakes — slithered around freely on the floor in dormitories where the sick and injured slept.

Azemiopinae

The fangs have a ridge at the tip lateral to the discharge orifice, as well as a blade-like structure on the ventral surface otherwise seen only in some opistoglyphous and atractaspid snakes.

Bill Haast

Soon after opening the Serpentarium Haast began experimenting with building up an acquired immunity to the venom of King, Indian and Cape cobras by injecting himself with gradually increasing quantities of venom he had extracted from his snakes, a practice called mithridatism.

Boidae

The Old Tupi name for such snakes was mbói, which figures in the etymology of names such as jibóia and boitatá (the Brazilian name for the mythical giant anaconda).

Bring the Lions Out

Produced by Imperial Recordings, two singles were released, "Snakes and Lions" and "I Adore You", the latter of which was used in a 2008 Volvo commercial.

Coatlicue statue

The Coatlicue statue is a 2.7 metre (8.9 ft) tall andesite statue usually identified with the Aztec goddess Coatlicue ("snakes-her-skirt").

Copper Canyon, Texas

The town apparently got its name from "Copperhead Canyon," a part of the area formerly known for poisonous snakes.

Crotalus oreganus cerberus

Some adult Arizona black rattlesnakes can change color relatively quickly, an ability shared not only with chameleons but also with other snakes such as some species in the genus Tropidophis.

Edge Hill State School

"In the dry weather a lone Jabiru came yearly to stand motionless for hours in the lower paddock. Snakes including death adders were plentiful. A dairy farm adjoined the school. The cows in search of pasture, made tracks along the school's fence. At certain times of the year the areas where cows had been, produced enormous crops of delicious mushrooms"

Felix Kopstein

In 1924 he transferred to Java, being employed at the Pasteur Institute in Bandung, while in the meantime conducting studies of lizards and snakes native to the island.

Gary Moon

They are now working on a project called SnakS (pronounced 'snakes') with Tony Brock, drummer for Rod Stewart and Jeff Beck.

Geb

The latter initial root consonant occurs once in the Middle Kingdom Coffin Texts, more often in 21st Dynasty mythological papyri as well as in a text from the Ptolemaic tomb of Petosiris at Tuna el-Gebel or was written with initial hard -k-, as e.g. in a 30th Dynasty papyrus text in the Brooklyn Museum dealing with descriptions of and remedies against snakes.

Gnathostoma hispidum

New research has just found to have linked snakes, such as Gloydius blomhoffii and Dinodon rufozonatum as intermediate hosts for Gnathostoma hispidum.

Gyalopion canum

According to an article in the August, 2000 issue of Discover magazine, during a laboratory experiment carried out by Bruce Young, a morphologist at Lafayette College, the snakes only farted when they felt threatened, and some farted so energetically that they lifted themselves off the ground.

Hot Snakes

In May 2005, while on tour in Australia, Hot Snakes recorded a live in-studio performance at ABC studios for Australian radio station JJJ.

Hylarana temporalis

They are important prey of many species of snakes, including the Malabar pit viper and the vine snake.

Hyrrokkin

Snake-witch stone, a picture stone depicting a female grasping two snakes

Iwakuni, Yamaguchi

The white snakes found in Iwakuni are usually the albino variety of the Japanese Rat Snake.

John Reis

2005 marked the end of Reis' multi-band involvement, with the breakups of Hot Snakes in July and Rocket from the Crypt on Halloween.

Keelbacks

Keelbacks are Colubrid snakes of the subfamily Natricinae, so named because their dorsal scales exhibit strong keeling.

Little Boys

Meanwhile, Ted ridicules Barney's latest pick-up plan (a story involving snakes and an eye-patch) and the two argue about who has more "game", while, to his dismay, Marshall is classed as irrelevant.

Menarana

This degree of fusion is otherwise only seen in caecilians, amphisbaenians, and uropeltid snakes, all of which are highly specialized burrowers.

Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes

Although The Twin Snakes was largely developed at Silicon Knights (mostly programming), its cut scenes and models were developed in-house at Konami and directed by Japanese film director Ryuhei Kitamura, reflecting his dynamic signature style, utilizing bullet-time photography and choreographed gunplay extensively.

Night of the Wolverine

With Graney on vocals, the Coral Snakes line-up included his wife Clare Moore on drums and percussion; Robin Casinader on keyboards, violin and mandolin; Rob Hayward on lead guitar; and Andrew Picouleau on bass guitar.

Oriental odd-tooth snake

They live in the forest, mainly in the forest floor and predate other snakes, frogs and lizards, such as Achalinus spinalis, the Japanese common toad (Bufo japonicus), Takydromus tachydromoides, and Plestiodon japonicus.

Ostlers Plantation

After receiving hospital treatment at Lincoln County Hospital he made a full recovery; however it reignited concern over the danger of snakes.

Pierce Turner

Other songs by Turner were featured in the film Snakes and Ladders and the HBO TV show The Wire (his version of "Dirty Old Town").

Pipe snake

Cylindrophiidae, a.k.a. Asian pipe snakes, a family of harmless snakes found in Asia.

Aniliidae, a.k.a. the false coral snakes, a family of harmless snakes found in South America.

Uropeltidae, a.k.a. shield-tailed snakes, a family of harmless snakes found in southern India and Sri Lanka.

Predicament escape

Examples include a trick in which Melinda Saxe escaped from a tank filled with snakes during the 1998 television special The World's Most Dangerous Magic and a performance in the sequel show the following year in which the magician Margo was shackled in a coffin filled with rats and escaped to re-appear from behind the audience.

Puff adder

Heterodon, a genus of harmless North American colubrid snakes

Queen snake

Linus van Pelt, from the Peanuts comic strip, has a phobia of queen snakes, believing them to be venomous, and finds them ugly.

Rajiv Gandhi Zoological Park

Information about the snakes is provided in Braille, as well as more conventional formats, and the park includes a library.

Reserva Provincial La Payunia

Reptiles include venomous snakes such as the Patagonian pit viper Bothrops ammodytoides and crossed pit viper Bothrops alternatus.

Snake Temple

The vipers are believed to be rendered harmless by the sacred smoke, but as a safety precaution, the snakes have also been de-venomed but still have their fangs intact.

Stenostomidae

Stenostomidae is also a synonym for Leptotyphlopidae (commonly called Slender Blind Snakes or Thread Snakes).

Texas Water Safari

Other challenges include aggressive alligator gar, alligators, sharks (while crossing the bay), poisonous water moccasin snakes, fire ants, and mosquitos.

The Awesome Snakes

In July 2006, Crustacean Records issued the Awesome Snakes' full length debut CD, Venom.

Awesome Snakes was a two-person punk rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, featuring Annie "Sparrows" Holoien (The Soviettes, The God Damn Doo Wop Band) on bass and Danny Henry (The Soviettes, France Has The Bomb, International Robot) on drums.

Tomb of Orcus

"These" (Theseus) and the Etruscan equivalent of Pirithous are seated at a table on the right wall, playing a board game, where they are threatened by the Etruscan demon "Tuchulcha", who is pictured with pointed ears, a hairy face, and a hooked beak, wielding snakes in his hands.

UA 8699

Averianov, Archibald, and Martin instead placed UA 8699 in the context of faunal similarity and exchange between the late Cretaceous faunas of Europe and Africa, noting the presence of similar animals, such as snakes (Medtsoia) and sauropods (Lirainosaurus and Repetosaurus), in the Cretaceous faunas of Madagascar and the Spanish locality Laño.

White-lipped snake

They belong to the genus Drysdalia, and are often referred to as whip snakes in Tasmania (true whip snakes from Australia are in the genus Demansia and are only found on the mainland).

Worm snake

Typhlina, sometimes also referred to as shield-tailed snakes, or the African worm snake

Yarra Bend Park

The park is home to many species of birds, bats and other mammals, reptiles (tiger snakes and blue tongued lizards are common) insects and fish (esp. carp and eels) also regularly found are Rainbow Lorikeets, Red-rumped Parrots and Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos, Water Rats and Brush-tail and Ringtail Possums.

You Wanna Be There But You Don't Wanna Travel

With Graney on vocals, the Coral Snakes line-up included his wife Clare Moore on drums and percussion; Robin Casinader on keyboards, violin and mandolin; Rob Hayward on lead guitar; and early member Gordy Blair returned on bass guitar.

Zilant

Ibn Fadlan, who visited Volga Bulgaria in the 10th century, referred to numerous snakes, especially in trees.


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