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Friendly Snakes Vs. Not So Friendly Snakes... Identifying Venomous Snakes in the United States88

Friendly Snakes Vs. Not So Friendly Snakes... Identifying Venomous Snakes in the United States

Being somewhat of a country boy, from the time I could walk I was being taught how to tell the difference between the 'dangerous' and 'not so dangerous snakes' in the wild. When I was a young child my family lived in a very rural area in Southern...

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Pet Reptiles - A Buyer's Guide80

Pet Reptiles - A Buyer's Guide

Reptiles can make wonderful pets. They are beautiful, diverse, and for the most part easy to maintain.

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The King Snake. America's Pet Snake That Eats Venomous Snakes!90

The King Snake. America's Pet Snake That Eats Venomous Snakes!

The King snake is the KING of snakes in most every domain or region in which they live, and what that means is that they EAT other snakes, and other things that we humans tend to find undesirable, especially high on the "undesirable" list of King Snake snack foods are rodents such as rats and mice. If eating other snakes - venomous snakes - wasn't enough to endear you to the King snake, then surely eating rats and mice should be.

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Amazing Two Headed Snake83

Amazing Two Headed Snake

Amazing facts and superstition about two headed snakes. A two headed rat snake named "We" was once put up for auction in eBay and got a bid of $150,000. But the site's policy against the auction of live animals prevented the sale from going through."We" was eventually adopted by a pharmaceutical company doing research in snake venom.

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Worshipped Animals - Serpent :: Snake Worship :: Snakes in Worship70

Worshipped Animals - Serpent :: Snake Worship :: Snakes in Worship

Worshipped animals - the snake. The cult of the serpent is found in many parts of the Old World. It is also not unknown in America.

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Keeping A King Snake As A Pet79

Keeping A King Snake As A Pet

Some species of the King Snake like the Scarlett King Snake have color patterns that can quite easily be confused with the Coral Snake. Did you know that the common King Snake is quite often immune from venomous snakes and that a common meal of the King Snake is the Rattle Snake. King Snakes are quite often kept as pets due to the fact that they are quite easy to care for. King Snakes are quite often fed on pre killed rodents as it is dangerous to give your snake a live rodent as snakes sometim

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Burmese Python Eats Wilbur, the Family Pussy.77

Burmese Python Eats Wilbur, the Family Pussy.

"Red on yellow, kill this fellow!" Many people, especially cat lovers, were shocked at the story in the British press about a 13-foot Burmese Python asphyxiating and eating poor Wilbur, a neighbour’s kittie recently. What was especially...

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Snake Pictures in Louisiana76

Snake Pictures in Louisiana

The habitats of Louisiana abound with many kinds of reptiles, including snakes. We have photographed and studied some of the species of snakes that live in our 9 acre backyard habitat. This article is about several of the beneficial snakes that inhabit southeastern Louisiana.

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King Cobra93

King Cobra

The King Cobra is certainly one of the most aggressive and deadly snakes in the world. King Cobra Facts and Information. Feeding, habitat, distribution, reproduction, anatomy and more.

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How and why to kill a rattlesnake78

How and why to kill a rattlesnake

Although not advocating killing all rattlesnakes, this article deals with areas where these venomous reptiles present a danger to children and animals. Where relocation is not feasible, killing them may be the only choice. Safe effective and humane means of quickly dispatching the snake is described.

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