'I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night'
~Sarah Williams
Hey, so some people love snakes and some people don't. I personally do not and have not ever liked snakes; they just look scary, vicious, cold, slimy, slithery, and creepy to me! And for the people who do like snakes: you are totally entitled to your opinion and that choice! But for the people who don't like snakes that much (aka me), just wanted to let you know that with some snakes it is actually great if we stay away from them. Such snakes as the Beaked Sea Snake, who's venom can kill up to 50 people! That's a lot of people!
The Beaked Sea Snake lives in shallow inshore waters, is distributed in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific, from Persian Gulf to Northern Australia, weighs up to 4 1/2 pounds (2 kg), and is 3 1/4 - 5 ft (1-1.5 m) in length. Notoriously aggressive and readily provoked, this widespread species is responsible for nine out of every ten deaths from sea-snake bites. Light gray with indistinct blue-gray bands, it has a sharply pointed head, slender body, and padre-like tail. It's fangs are less than 1/5
(4 mm) in length, but it's jaws can age widely to accommodate large prey. It feeds mainly on catfish and shrimp swimming near the bottom in shallow, murky water, in costal waters, mangrove swamps, estuaries, and rivers, locating its victims by smell and touch. Like all fish-eating snakes, it waits until its prey has stopped struggling, before turning it so that it can be consumed head-first. Despite their venom, these snakes are eaten by inshore predators, such as fish and estuarine crocodiles.
-All information on my post about the beaked sea snake is found from p.378 in Ocean The World's last Wilderness Revealed, American Museum of Natural History
Picture on top by: Ocean, The World's Last Wilderness Revealed (American Museum Of Natural History).
~Sarah Williams
Hey, so some people love snakes and some people don't. I personally do not and have not ever liked snakes; they just look scary, vicious, cold, slimy, slithery, and creepy to me! And for the people who do like snakes: you are totally entitled to your opinion and that choice! But for the people who don't like snakes that much (aka me), just wanted to let you know that with some snakes it is actually great if we stay away from them. Such snakes as the Beaked Sea Snake, who's venom can kill up to 50 people! That's a lot of people!
The Beaked Sea Snake lives in shallow inshore waters, is distributed in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific, from Persian Gulf to Northern Australia, weighs up to 4 1/2 pounds (2 kg), and is 3 1/4 - 5 ft (1-1.5 m) in length. Notoriously aggressive and readily provoked, this widespread species is responsible for nine out of every ten deaths from sea-snake bites. Light gray with indistinct blue-gray bands, it has a sharply pointed head, slender body, and padre-like tail. It's fangs are less than 1/5
(4 mm) in length, but it's jaws can age widely to accommodate large prey. It feeds mainly on catfish and shrimp swimming near the bottom in shallow, murky water, in costal waters, mangrove swamps, estuaries, and rivers, locating its victims by smell and touch. Like all fish-eating snakes, it waits until its prey has stopped struggling, before turning it so that it can be consumed head-first. Despite their venom, these snakes are eaten by inshore predators, such as fish and estuarine crocodiles.
-All information on my post about the beaked sea snake is found from p.378 in Ocean The World's last Wilderness Revealed, American Museum of Natural History
Picture on top by: Ocean, The World's Last Wilderness Revealed (American Museum Of Natural History).
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