Are there snakes in Trinidad? If so, how did they get there?

Answer 1

Snakes are everywhere except Ireland, New Zealand, Iceland, Greenland, and Antarctica. Fossil records indicate that the earliest snakes developed on Gondwanaland—a former supercontinent comprised of modern-day Antarctica, South America, Africa, India, and Australia. New Zeland split off of Austrailia before snakes could occupy it, Antartica is too cold for snakes to survive, Iceland and Ireland may have had snakes at one time as a result of early land bridges, but the Ice Age probably killed them off.

So yes Virginia.... there are snakes in Trinidad and they got there either before continental drift or as the result of a land bridge and ocean levels have risen and fallen during ice ages....

Answer 2

I don't know about Trinidad, but in Barbados, there aren't too many snakes (so I was told, but read below), as the British imported a bunch of mongoose(s?) to kill them! Now the place is overrun with the furry little fellas...and they hate cats.

Here's what Wikipedia writes: "Some species of mongoose can be easily domesticated and trained. They are fairly intelligent and can be taught simple tricks, so they are often kept as pets to protect the home from vermin. However, they can be more destructive than desired; when imported into the West Indies for the purpose of killing rats, they destroyed most of the small, ground-based fauna. For this reason, it is illegal to import most species of mongooses into the United States."

Yes, that last part doesn't make sense - shouldn't it be illegal to import them to the CARIBBEAN???! So, it was rats, not snakes.

Answer 3

yes see this list of snakes in trinidad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_snakes_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago how they got there i don't know im afraid

Answer 4

On a plane.

Answer 5

There are none