Snake

SNAKE is a long, slender, limbless reptile with a highly flexible body and scaly skin which it sheds periodically. It is a carnivore and kills its prey—small mammals, birds—by constriction, poison or swallowing. Huge jungle snakes such as the python and the anaconda reach lengths of 10 m but BC snakes are much smaller and in most cases harmless to humans. Only the western RATTLESNAKE is seriously poisonous. Like other reptiles, some snake species give birth to live young while others lay...

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