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	Snake Anatomy
		Lizards differ from snakes anatomically by having their two lower jawbones fused together, while the lower jawbones of the snake are connected by a flexible band of tough tissue that enables the two bones to articulate separately.
		Snakes continue to grow throughout their lives, and the largest specimens of a species that you find are usually the oldest.
		Snake skulls consist, in general, of a bony, inelastic brain-case that is connected with the rest of the skull by flexible ligaments that enable the snake to exercise an extraordinary range of jaw articulation.
	www.bugsinthenews.com /snake_anatomy.htm (1496 words)

	Snake Anatomy and Physiology
		Though snakes are often described as being "slimy," their skin is actually very dry, In fact, they only have two skin glands – a pair of anal scent glands that secrete a substance used to attract a mate, provide protection from predators, and mark territory.
		Snake teeth are both acrodont (attached to the bone) and polyphydont (able to grow back when lost), and a snake may have several sets of teeth throughout its lifetime.
		Snakes lack epidiymides and the sperm are simply transported from the teste through the ductus deferens to the cloaca.
	www.peteducation.com /article.cfm?cls=17&cat=1831&articleid=2974 (2315 words)

	Anatomy Section
		Snakes cannot use their teeth to chew pray since they are all pointing backwards.
		All of the snake's teeth are the same length and size except the elongated teeth of Boas and Pythons and the Venomous snakes.
		The snake's brain (in structure) is very similar to a bird's brain but the snakes lacks the enlarged cerebral hemispheres found in birds and mammals.
	www.icon.co.za /~mvdmerwe/anatomy.htm (1047 words)

	The Kerala Articles: Snake Fangs
		Knowing the exact count of the of teeth is important, and to do this the maxilla or the entire arch may have to be separated from the body, cleaned, and dried to ascertain the impressions of shed teeth.
		Snakes are divided mainly in to three based on the structure of their teeth, they are 1- solid toothed, 2- groove-toothed, and 3- canliculate-toothed.
		Teeth of snakes are important not only as they are the only mark to reveal the venomous nature of snakes but also as the prominent story tellers about the evolutionary stages snakes traversed to reach the present status occupied by them.
	keralaarticles.blogspot.com /2007/04/snake-fangs.html (723 words)

	University of Cincinnati News: Biologist Finds Snake With Novel Feeding Adaptation
		Everyone knows that snakes swallow their meals in one giant gulp, so University of Cincinnati biologist Bruce Jayne and his colleagues were astonished to discover a tropical snake that eats at a much different pace.
		The snake forms itself into a loop and uses the loop to hold and tear apart its prey.
		The ability to rip the crabs apart was a surprise, because snake teeth are not adapted for slicing and cutting.
	www.uc.edu /news/gerarda.htm (514 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: )
		About Indian Snakes There are about 255 species of snakes in India, of which about 52 are venomous and only four pose threat to human beings, as they are found in the vicinity of human settlements, especially in rural areas which are agricultural and have rats in abundance.
		Though snakes are often described as being "slimy," their skin is actually very dry, In fact, they only have two skin glands -- a pair of anal scent glands that secrete a substance used to attract a mate, provide protection from predators, and mark territory.
		Snakes are incapable of significantly lengthening and shortening their total body length because they do not have a hydrostatic skeleton.
	www.snakecell.org /aboutsnakes.htm (2671 words)

	Dealing with non-venomous snake bites
		Water snakes, Nerodia sipedon, are known to have anti-coagulants in their saliva that keeps the blood from clotting and it seems that the same holds true with eastern garter snakes.
		Snakes, just like other animals or even people, are individual in their overall "personality." Some snakes are more tolerant than others about what is going on around them.
		Some wild "untamed" snakes seem to appreciate a free hand method when working with them that does not confine them as compared to holding their head in place with your hand; again, it is an individual personality trait.
	members.aol.com /TheWyvernsLair/snakes/snakebite.html (1594 words)

	Reptiles UK
		Snakes that live in warm climates are active for longer periods than those that live in cooler climates.
		Snakes are difficult to observe in their natural surroundings because they stay hidden much of the time.
		Snakes are sometimes inactive for long periods because of cold or hot weather or a scarce supply of food.
	groups.msn.com /ReptilesUK/snakes1.msnw (6374 words)

	Snakes of Missouri
		The teeth are sharp and curve toward the rear of the mouth.
		Snakes and lizards use their tongues to pick up odors that are transferred to special sense organs in the roof of the mouth.
		Snakes which retain their young until they are completely developed are water snakes, garter snakes, brown snakes, copperheads, cottonmouths and rattlesnakes.
	www.mdc.mo.gov /nathis/herpetol/snake (1536 words)

	Snakes of Arkansas: Snake Bite (Ophitoxaemia)
		For a Coral Snake, a small dose of high-potency venom might be just the thing to immobilize smaller snakes (which may have some natural immunities to snake venom).
		Since a larger snake can inject a larger dose of venom than a smaller snake of the same species, it is the larger one that is certainly the most dangerous.
		As a person who works with venomous snakes in the field, on several occasions I (and colleagues of mine) have stepped within inches of a snake, caught a boot-tip under the coil of a snake and half-flipped it over, and even stepped directly on top of a snake.
	www.snakesofarkansas.com /Main/SnakeBite (4351 words)

	Brown Tree Snake
		The brown tree snake is a nocturnal and arboreal snake that ranges from eastern Indonesia to the Solomon Islands and northern Australia.
		In the event of a likely brown tree snake report, these teams are called into action to search for the snake in an effort to ensure that any brown tree snakes that do arrive here do not have a chance to establish a self-sustaining population.
		No snake species are native to Hawai`i (although the small, harmless blind snake has become established here this century), and all have the potential to become problems should they establish here.
	www.hawaii.gov /dlnr/Snake.html (839 words)

	Bull Snake Printout- EnchantedLearning.com
		This snake is also called the gopher snake (in western North America) and the pine snake (in eastern North America).
		The snake's top and bottom jaws are attached to each other with stretchy ligaments, which let the snake swallow animals that are wider than itself.
		Snakes don't chew their food, they digest it with very strong acids in the snake's stomach.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/reptiles/snakes/Bullsnake.shtml (396 words)

	Chemical & Engineering News \| Reel Science -- Review (Frankenstein)
		"Snakes on a Plane" is a straightforward recipe for catalyzing a selection of phobias that might be lurking in your subconscious.
		Bad guys put a cornucopia of snakes on a red-eye flight, douse the plane with snake pheromones that spur aggression (ah, there's some potential chemistry!), and hope that one passenger (Phillips)—a witness for the prosecution in a mafia trial, who is guarded by badass FBI agent Neville Flynn (Jackson)—gets bitten.
		Speaking of the snake selection, Bela Demeter, a biologist at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., points out that a good half of the snake species shown in the movie are actually innocuous.
	pubs.acs.org /cen/reelscience/recommendations/snakes (592 words)

	Are Hognosed Snakes venomous? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the case of American hognosed snakes, while they have been observed to hold prey down with their coils during ingestion, there have been no reports of these snakes employing constriction as part of their killing mechanism.
		Since the American hognosed snake group (all three species) are well known as bluffers and are loathe to bite their keepers, it is unlikely that they present any kind of threat to humans other than during feeding periods.
		Xenodontidae: While current taxonomy denotes snakes with enlarged rear teeth on their maxillary bones as members of the Xenodontinae, sufficient evidence exists to suggest this group should be elevated to family level thus beign renamed Xenodontidae.
	www.hognose.com /pages/venomous.htm (2125 words)

	Bites Venom
		In snakes, venom is an evolutionary adaptation to immobilize prey, secondarily used in defense.
		Africa’s rich venomous snake fauna is dominated by true vipers (ncluding arboreal vipers, desert vipers, nightadders, puffadders, and saw-scaled vipers), terrestrial elapids, (cobras and mambas), molevipers (Atractaspidinae), and two of the world’s four deadliest colubrids, the boomslang (Dispholidus typus) and the African birdsnake (Thelotornis kirtlandii).
		In proteroglyphous snakes, the fangs are short because large fixed fangs would require a deepening of the mouth cavity to prevent the fangs from perforating the floor of the mouth.
	www.reptileallsorts.com /bites-venom.htm (9457 words)

	Snake jokes
		The 1st one said 'Sidney, are we the type of snakes who wrap ourselves around our prey and squeeze and crush until they're dead?
		Or are we the type of snake who ambush our prey and bite them and they are poisioned?'.
		The snake comes back in 2 weeks and tells the doctor he's very depressed.
	snake-jokes.allthejokes.com (219 words)

	Eastern Hognose Snake: Nature Snapshots from Minnesota DNR: Minnesota DNR
		The eastern hognose snake mates in the spring.
		Eastern hognose snake numbers often decline in areas where there is much development such as highways and houses.
		When frightened, hognose snakes coil and flatten their heads and necks two to three times their normal width.
	www.dnr.state.mn.us /snapshots/snakes_turtles/easternhognosesnake.html (331 words)

	Zoobooks - The Encyclopedia of Animals
		When the animal has stopped breathing, the snake must swallow it whole, because snake teeth are no good for chewing.
		Poisonous snakes take a less strenuous approach: they simply use their fangs to inject venom and sit back to wait for the venom to take effect.
		In fact, the fear of snakes may be greater now than ever before, because so many people who live in cities never get to see many snakes or to learn about them.
	www.zoobooks.com /newFrontPage/animals/animalFacts/snakes.html (470 words)

	Venomous snakes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		My first care for venomous snake was a Vipera berus berus because of its burlesque looking and the viper; once my neighbour gave me a nice exemplar in a bucket, I bought the injured viper to a veteran but it died because of its injuries.
		There are also snake types which teeth are placed like the teeth from not venomous snakes although their bites can be dangerous.
		To be for sure you have to check the snake’s teeth, their head shape and the venom gland to see if the snake is venomous, less venomous or not venomous.
	www.baumpython.com /BaumpythonUK/html/venomous_snakes.html (895 words)

	hognose snake bite
		This snake has been a gentle captive for 8 years and has never attempted to bite.
		It seemed to use it's rear teeth almost exclusively, actively engaging the larger rear teeth.
		In my experience a typical harmless snake bite shows a much fuller set of teeth, ie, they bite with their whole set of dentures.
	www.herpnet.net /bite (554 words)

	Rural Rites: Get to know the snakes on your property (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The 15 are within the four species of poisonous snakes in the state: rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, copperheads, and the coral snake.
		If a snake is found, assistance in removing it can sometimes be obtained by contacting the county or city animal control officer, according to John Mellon of the Snake Farm and Exotic Animal Park in New Braunfels.
		All snakes can bite, and most snakes' teeth are angled backward, so a bitten body part that is jerked will just cause the snake's teeth to sink deeper.
	www.countryworldnews.com /Editorial/SCTX/2005/sc0526snakes.htm (800 words)

	Cotton Teeth - The Snake The Cross The Crown : Equal Vision Records
		Cotton Teeth is the culmination of a year and a half of introspection, experimentation, and discovery for the four talented young men known as The Snake The Cross The Crown.
		At a time when bands are exhausting every resource to get to the top, The Snake The Cross The Crown have poured their energy into finding and developing their sound.
		Basically, The Snake, The Cross, The Crown wrote a great album, changed their sound, wrote another great album and I hope they're happier than ever with this one cuz it's a damn good album for people who like acts such as Limbeck and of course, Wilco.
	www.equalvision.com /releases/show/6 (350 words)

	THE ONLY GOOD SNAKE IS A LIVE SNAKE
		If you find a snake in your basement, some experts suggest laying damp burlap bags in a corner or along a wall in the basement, then waiting for snakes to burrow under them and hide.
		Milk snakes were rumored to slide up to cows and suck milk from their teats.
		And hoop snakes were said to bite their tails and roll after you down hills.
	aginfo.psu.edu /News/april99/snake.html (1087 words)

	Anaconda \| biggest snake \| biggest anaconda
		Anacondas are rather slow-moving snakes, so they have to rely on stealth and the element of surprise to catch their unsuspecting prey.
		Snakes' teeth are used for holding onto their prey, preventing them from escaping.
		Some snakes have venom in two specially designed, extra long teeth (called fangs) which they use to kill their prey.
	www.extremescience.com /BiggestSnake.htm (822 words)

	Tube feeding a snake
		This is generally far enough to get the liquid down the stomach, if the snake is large enough to take the diameter of the syringe, and small enough that the length of the syringe is a meaningful distance down its throat.
		A snake's glottis is usually closed, so it's hard to get the tube in there by accident, but Murphy's law says that you'll get lucky about the fifth time you try tube-feeding, just when you're starting to think that you know what you're doing.
		I've had snakes suddenly try to eat the tube, and if it's already entirely in their mouth, they can pull it off the syringe.
	www.kingsnake.com /snakegetters/demo/tubefeed.html (2446 words)

	IOL: Snake bite man survives by skin of his teeth
		Contrary to earlier reports by paramedics that Ngobase was bitten while walking in the bush, he said he was struck by the venomous snake while changing the thatch on the roof of his home.
		The snake had bitten him on his finger after he tried to pull it out of the thatch by its tail, but unbeknown to him, he had grabbed its head instead.
		He was later airlifted to Addington Hospital where he was injected with a serum, made from snake venom, to treat the poison.
	www.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=ct20021023212148466S520531 (452 words)

	Ocean Watch
		Having a yellow-bellied sea snake on display in a Hawaii aquarium would be a good way for us to learn about, and marvel at, these remarkable marine animals.
		Sea snakes are distant relatives of cobras that have adapted to life in the ocean.
		At least 52 species of sea snakes, all venomous, are found in the warm waters of the Pacific and Indian oceans.
	www.starbulletin.com /1999/01/18/news/oceanwatch.html (628 words)

	Snake's Burrow!
		Snakes don’t swallow their young to protect them during times of danger (acids in a snake belly would quickly kill and digest the young).
		Snakes don’t milk cows (snake teeth are very sharp and cows won't stand for it).
		Snakes cannot crawl faster than a person can walk (it just seems that way to some adrenaline-driven individuals when they unexpectedly encounter one of these reptiles).
	www.gpnc.org /snakes.htm (610 words)

	Emergency Medical Manual-Snakebites veterinary medicine advice info from pet veterinarian
		If the animal has been bitten by a non-poisonous snake (most of the snakes you will encounter are going to be non-poisonous), you may see an outline of teh snake's teeth/jaw at the area of the bite.
		Also, if the snake rattles, it's poisonous.) The animal's breath may be labored, there may be a large area of swelling surrounding teh bite/fang marks, and the animal is often quiet and listless.
		If you see the outline of the snake's teeth/jaw and two fang marks, treat the animal as if it were bitten by a poisonous snake.
	www.drlarrypetvet.com /health_manual_snakebites.htm (333 words)

	Coral Snake - North Carolina (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Warning: This snake is the only representative of the family Elapidae in North Carolina.
		Its teeth are usually unable to penetrate through thick materials such as jeans so people are rarely bitten by these snakes.
		However, this snake's bite can be lethal and it should not be handled.
	www.herpsofnc.org /herps_of_NC/snakes/Mic_ful.html (224 words)

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