Cool facts
about snakes
Your guide
Mateus Malaquias
Software Developer at Bank Itaú
Snake Lover
💕
Runner
T
here 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 😄
Australia has bla bla bla...
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
Do not confuse snakes with dinosaurs descended
OH!
Here is a
dinosaur...
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 v
enomous and
poisonous...
Snakes are actually venomous...
You can eat a
v
enomous snake and nothing is gone happen with you...
But if a
v
enomous 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.
Session Five
Parthenogenesis 🤨
Even when males are not available some species of snakes can have babies \o/
Not all snakes lay eggs...
Snakes can be viviparous and oviparous
Session Bonus
List of deadliest animals to humans ⚰️
Mosquitoes - 1.000.000 per year
Humans - 475.000 per year
Snakes - 50.000 per year
Dogs - 25.000 per year
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