snakes in the garden?

Question

tell me everything about snakes, why are the wonderful creatures and why do people hate them,

Answer 1

well personally i love snakes.. they r beautiful creatures.. have u seen the colours & shapes on them.. they come in beautiful reds, yellows, greens, stripes, diamonds, spots.. over all they never really harm humans.. most of the time the people who r bitten must have stepped over it or hurt it.. coz snakes never attack unless they r threatened..

here is some more facts abt snakes :-


The phylogeny of snakes is poorly known due to the fact that snake skeletons are typically small and fragile, making fossilization unlikely. It has however been generally agreed, on the basis of morphology, that snakes descended from lizard-like ancestors. Recent research based on genetics and biochemistry confirms this; snakes form a venom clade with several extant lizard families.


All snakes are carnivorous, eating small animals including lizards and other snakes, rodents and other small mammals, birds, eggs or insects. Some snakes have a venomous bite which they use to kill their prey before eating it. Other snakes kill their prey by constriction. Still others swallow their prey whole and alive. Most snakes are very easy to feed in captivity, apart from a minority of species. Read more about snake food.

Snakes do not chew their food and have a very flexible lower jaw, the two halves of which are not rigidly attached, and numerous other joints in their skull (see snake skull), allowing them to open their mouths wide enough to swallow their prey whole, even if it is larger in diameter than the snake itself. It is a common misconception that snakes actually dislocate their lower jaw to consume large prey.


While snake vision is unremarkable (generally being best in arboreal species and worst in burrowing species), it is able to detect movement. Some snakes, like the Asian vine snake, have binocular vision. In most snakes, the lens moves back and forth within the eyeball to focus. In addition to their eyes, some snakes (pit vipers, pythons, and some boas) have infrared-sensitive receptors in deep grooves between the nostril and eye which allow them to "see" the radiated heat.

Snakes have no external ears, but they do have a bone called the quadrate under the skin on either side of the head which focuses sound into the cochlea.[2] Their sense of hearing is most sensitive to frequencies around 200–300 Hz.


A snake smells by using its forked tongue to collect airborne particles then passing them to the Jacobson's organ or the Vomeronasal organ in the mouth for examination. The fork in the tongue gives the snake a sort of directional sense of smell. The part of the body which is in direct contact with the surface of the ground is very sensitive to vibration, thus a snake is able to sense other animals approaching.


Several species of snake have the ability to glide, all being in the genus Chrysopelea. They are quite capable at it, able to travel as far as 13.7 metres through the air. They tend to make slithering motions to steer and help propel themselves along, propulsion being something unusual among the many gliding animals. This has contributed, in ancient times, to the belief in Wyrms (Legless, snake-like dragons that could supposedly fly.)

Answer 2

Before I say anything about the food, I think you should know the bad things about keeping a wild snake. Most snakes that are born outside will refuse the meals that you will try to give it. There is a possibility that the snake has internal or external parasites; internal being worms, external being bugs such as mites and ticks. The snake may feel you are a threat so it may try to strike and bite you. The snake will also need certain cage requirements, and I can tell you have not done much research on this species. I suggest letting the snake go, it's the best thing. These snakes will need to eat pinkie mice as babies, but as adults will need to eat large adult mice. They should eat a mouse about the same size as the middle part of the snake's body.

Answer 3

People are afraid when they see one of them!
I dont like them , but they are very beautiful,as i think.
They are clever creatures , but they are dangerous for little kids .
Snakes (from Old English snaca, and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European base snag- or sneg-, "to crawl"), also known as ophidians, are cold blooded legless reptiles closely related to lizards, which share the order Squamata. There are also several species of legless lizard which superficially resemble snakes, but are not otherwise related to them. A love of snakes is called ophiophilia, a fear of snakes is called ophidiophobia. A specialist in snakes is an ophiologist.
An old synonym for snake is serpent (which comes from Old French, and ultimately from *serp-, "to creep"); in modern usage this usually refers to a mythic or symbolic snake, and information about such creatures can be found under serpent (symbolism). This article deals with the biology of snakes.

For more info click here- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes
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Answer 4

I love them.
As an avid desert hiker, I often find myself in the shade of a mountain round about snake-thirty. They are beautiful creatures, but they are to be respected. The most remarkable specimen I ever encountered was a Mojave rattler... the deadliest species in the southwestern US. Nice of him to warn me. And good thing the trail was wide. I stood still and named him Sebastian before he slithered off on his merry way.

Answer 5

because some are very harmful and can even kill a person and people mentallity is like that that if sankes will bite them they will die.
and also they some snakes do look very very different types and odd.

Answer 6

Snakes are wonderful because they eat annoying yappy dogs. People hate them because they are sick of finding them on their motherf*#@$n' planes.

Answer 7

the only thing they are wonderful for is making cowboy boots and whips.
I dont like them because they get on planes and kill people

Answer 8

they're sneaky and mysterious like. Like we can't really see them (they pop out of nowhere in the woods, etc) I guess we fear things we don't know much about. same thing with spider too.

Answer 9

you sure you dident see them on a plane.. thats where they usaly are

Answer 10

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