snake

     

A snake is an elongate reptile of the suborer Serpentes. Like all reptiles, snakes are covered in scales. All snakes are carnivorous and can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids, limbs, external ears, and vestiges of forelimbs. The 2,700+ species of snakes spread across every continent except Antarctica ranging in size from the tiny, 10 cm long thread snake to pythons and anacondas over 5 m long. In order to accommodate snakes' narrow bodies, paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side. The snake is one of the most feared animals because of its association with evil and the common misconception that all snakes are venomous.

Trivia about snake

  • A puffer is a fish & a puff adder is a poisonous type of this
  • The title of the Sherlock Holmes story "The Speckled Band" refers to a lethal one of these reptiles
  • 2013 is the year of this animal that can coil
  • Someone who pretends to be your friend is this "in the grass"
  • A western U.S. river, or Kurt Russell's eyepatch-wearing anti-hero in 2 John Carpenter flicks
  • Idaho's Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument covers over 4,000 acres along the banks of this river
  • Karait is a little one of these killed by Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
  • A taipan or mamba? Put that in your drainpipe....
  • Insert in drain; crank handle clockwise while moving wire to dislodge clog; hike up pants
  • Cleopatra says of this animal, "Dost thou not see my baby at my breast that sucks the nurse asleep?"
  • Type of creature of which Dickinson wrote, "A narrow fellow in the grass occasionally rides"
  • If you're downright mean, your veins are filled with this reptile's "blood"
  • The cleanout plug is out, & Joe uses this long , flexible "reptilian" tool to clear debris
  • A plumber uses one to clear out your pipes
  • Coachwhip
  • The Jacobson's organ at the roof of this legless reptile's mouth is used with its tongue to detect odors
  • In "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", Holmes figures out that the title killer is one of these deadly creatures
  • 1965:A wirepuller, or a treacherous person, as in "a low-down, dirty..."
  • Chemist Friedrich Kekule described the benzene molecule after dreaming of this creature swallowing its tail
  • An African species of this reptile in the genus Dasypeltis feeds entirely on birds' eggs
  • Like its prey the chameleon, the boomslang, this type of animal, is noted for camouflage
  • In chapter 4 Moses casts a rod to the ground, & it turns into this
  • Winding through Idaho, the Salmon River is the largest tributary of this river
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew picks a pick.) To open a lock without a key, specialists use many different styles of picks; because of its shape, this one is known either has a rake or by this reptilian name
  • The Oxbow, Brownlee & Hells Canyon dams all dam this winding river
  • In Zulu belief, people's spirits revisit the world as these; a chief's spirit comes back as a mamba
  • The scientific name Sagittarius serpentarius tells you that inside the secretary bird you may find this, its main food
  • On an Inca cross, the three steps stood for three tiers of being--condor aloft, puma on earth, and this reptile in the underworld
  • Banded in red, black & yellow, the harlequin or coral one of these is very dangerous
  • Hells Canyon is also known as the Grand Canyon of this river
  • This river was discovered in 1805 by Lewis & Clark, who called it the Lewis Fork of the Columbia River