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Why aren't native predators in Australia able to handle the mice problem?
The mice aren't invading Australia, they are invading the wheat producing zones, where the tractors are leveling the land and putting on pesticides. The local frog, amphibian and snake populations ...
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Indian Snake Species Identification
Ashok's Bronzeback (Dendrelaphis ashoki).
This is a relatively small snake (typically 70 cm in length) that feeds on lizards, frogs and small rodents.
More information can be found here or here.
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Species Identification: Snake, New Mexico
It's difficult because the image quality is low, but there are some key features that can be made out which suggest it to be a Western Coachwhip, or "Whip snake", Masticophis flagellum testaceus.
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What species of snake found in central Alabama, US?
Definitely looks like some species of rat snake (genus Pantherophis). Based on the size, location and coloration, I'd say it's a dark variant of a Gray rat snake (Pantherophis spiloides).
It might ...
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Snake with orange spots found in South Florida
Looks very much like a red rat snake (Pantherophis guttatus). Nonvenomous, and wonderful.
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What kind of snake is this?
Great find!
I'm pretty certain that is actually a Prairie Kingsnake (Lampropeltis calligaster - likely the subspecies L. c. calligaster). The biggest indicator to me are the two alternating rows of ...
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Can you identify this snake?
Hard to tell without a clearer picture, but the size and color pattern seem to match the description for the Plain-bellied Watersnake.
See for example the following picture from the Virginia ...
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What species of snake in India "drinks breaths" according to local customs?
This Times of India article mentions the name "peevna" in relation to the "saw-scaled viper".
According to Wikipedia, the genus Echis contains 12 species that are commonly referred ...
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If a venomous snake somehow gets it's own venom in its body, will it be affected by it?
An excellent question. This fun mental floss article addresses that question, but from the perspective of one snake biting another snake:
Snake on snake violence
“The conventional wisdom is that ...
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Minor differences in morphology of a snake: Why designate it a different species?
Short explanation
According to the papers I could find, Dendrelaphis ashoki and D. girii aren't as closely related as you suggest: D. ashoki appears to be closely related to D. pictus, a Southeast ...
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What is this snake?
Could be a Temple Viper (Tropidolaemus wagleri). Hard to tell from the picture, but the head looks spaded like a Temple Viper's and I think they come in the green morph you show
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Can you explain the behavior of this snake?
You're right, snakes rely on scent to capture their prey. The fact that snakes are carnivores may be the one constant among all snake species; absolutely none feed even partially on plant matter. So ...
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Help ID snake near Deming NM
Though a full body image would help a lot, I feel certain that it is the desert king snake scientifically known as Lampropeltis getula splendida. This species is seen in most parts of New Mexico and ...
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Can anyone tell me what type of snake this is?
I believe this is a Barred Grass Snake, Natrix helvetica. There are only a few snakes naturally found in the UK, and the Grass Snake matches the size, color, and pattern (bars on the sides but not on ...
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What is the name of this snake?
My answer's coming late but thought it's worth checking out the comment made by Anutapa bhattaharya that it was a wolf snake. I realise he only said it with no references or photos but still, since ...
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What is the name of this snake?
Just to add another option:
My guess (though no more confident than @p.s.w.g's answer) is Balanophis ceylonensis (Sri Lankan Keelback) or related species.
The two features that stand out to me ...
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What is the name of this snake?
I'm not an expert by any means, and anyone with proper training could probably provide a more informed opinion, but here's my thoughts. The patterning looks similar to Oligodon taeniolatus, an small, ...
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Could a large constrictor kill a small animal?
Constrictors doesn't have uniform body circumference from head to tail. They coil around the prey accordingly. In your example, if the prey is very small, it just swallows. If its little big, it coils ...
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what snake is that in northern italy
It looks like a whip snake, either a Balkan whip snake or a green whip snake. They are both present in the very north of Italy, close to Slovenia. They both vary in color, but the coloration of this ...
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Help identifying snake? (Southern California)
Almost certainly the Western Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis, which is probably the most common rattlesnake in California. It has the characteristic fat body and stripes of a Rattlesnake.
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Recognition of snake (image)
Aesculapian snake (Zamenis longissimus). Common european species, non venomous, rodent/egg eater.
edit1: they can swim and can be found next to water bodies but are terrestrial.
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Does anybody know what kind of snake is this?
This is Orthriophis taeniurus ridleyi, a synonym is Elaphe taeniura. It has a few common names,some are Ridley's beauty snake,Cave beauty and Cave racer.
https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id310150/
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What snake is this?
It looks like a Balkan Whip Snake (Hierophis gemonensis (syn. Coluber gemonensis)):
More images:
Reptiles of Crete
Reptile Database
Balcanica.info
Wikipedia image
According to iNaturalist.org:
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Differentiating Antaresia (Children's Complex) Pythons using something other than color pattern
I finally got frustrated enough to dig up A Revision of the Liasis childreni species-group (Serpentes: Boidae) L.A. Smith, 1985 - the original paper that split up this species complex, and when even ...
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What species of snake in India "drinks breaths" according to local customs?
This is a misbelief and the possible answer is the "Krait" and its subspecies.
Here is a blog post by a scientist in the Tata institute of fundamental research. The blog contains data ...
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What Snake is this? (Found at my door in Raebareli, North India)
It is the venomous Common Krait (Bungarus caeruleus), one of the Big Four Indian Snakes, responsible for the highest number of snake bites in India.
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What species of snake is this? It was sighted in NE New Mexico, Union County
This looks like a western hognose snake (Heterodon nasicus).
Source: Wikipedia
Notice the OP's yellowish ground color with darker circles and elongated dark elliptic shapes on the head. this ...
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how many times can a spitting cobra spit its venom?
I presume it can only spit once or twice only An unwise presumption.
These cobras exhibited distinct control of venom flow with spits averaging 1.7% of the volume of the venom gland, thus enabling ...
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