Cool facts

about snakes

Your guide

Mateus Malaquias

Software Developer at Bank Itaú

Snake Lover 💕

Runner

There is a lot of misunderstanding 

and fears when we talk about snakes

The truth is they are amazing and must be protect

Session One

They are a big family

• Snakes are reptile and you can find them across the globe (except Antarctica)
   
• They are everywhere you can run away to a forest, savannas, mountains or to the ocean you will find a snake 😄

• Everybody knows that Australia is the most dangerous place in this planet, every animal in there will kill...
   
• So of courses the most venomous snakes are in Australia (tiger snake, taipan)
   
• Do you know about Ilha da Queimada Grande in Brazil?
   
• The Snake Island belongs to Brazil
  and it's not possible go to make a visit, because it's a home to an estimated 4,000 venomous vipers

Session Two

ECTOTHERMS

• Ectotherms? Yep! Snakes have cold blooded and they use external sources to get the blood hot. (Antarctica is a bad place to be a snake)
   
• When the blood is hot they will struggle to digest food and move fast.
   
• But it's not good to a snake be hot every time, because be hot cost energy and a good snake is lazy.

CARNIVOROUS

• Do not try to convince your pet snake to be vegan, because they only eat meat !
   
• What a snake eat?
  Lizards, frogs, insects, mammals (rats, rabbits) and others snakes.

THEY DON'T EAT HUMANS

• There is just two case confirmed that a Snake (Python reticulatus) eat a human...
   
• A python or sucuri can not eat a human or a cow, but they can try :)
   
• The snake will not follow you! They will try to escape from you!!
   
• Snakes can not hypnotize us! This is an India street show!
   
• Snakes smell milk and suckle in cows and women (this is a myth)

They can survive for

months without eating

• Snakes don't like to go outside and hunter the meal of the day...
   
• They prefer waiting for food...
   
• Some snakes can go for over one year without eating...
   
• A pet snake should be fed regularly!

Session Three

VENOMOUS!!!

• Stop to confuse venomous and poisonous...
   
• Snakes are actually venomous...
   
• You can eat a venomous snake and nothing is gone happen with you...
   
• But if a venomous snake bite you... pray...

OH! But exists non venomous snakes too

Session Four

External Ears...

• Many people think snakes are deaf, because they don't have external ears...
   
• They are mutants... they have internal ears bones
   
• We developed a new technology to help humans studying how snakes detect the sound

They have nose,

to smell you

• A Snake flicks out its tongue to smell the air.
   

• They have a special organ called the Jacobson’s organ in the roof of their mouth.