What is a snake of northern water?
Northern Water Snake or Nonodia Sipedon is a large snake with water that inhabits the northeast United States and Southeast Canada. Its similarity to some poisonous snakes often leads to its destruction. Snakes Northern Water are not poisonous, but their bite can be painful and leave the victim susceptible to infection. These snakes are essential for the environmental balance because they take care of several forms of pests and are food for various predators.
Northern Water Snakes come in several colors, but most of them have a dark stripe on their necks, stains along their bodies and a crescent -shaped mark in contrasting colors. Their back is usually brown, red, black or gray and their underside are shades of gray, buff or white. Snakes of northern water grow over 4 feet (122 cm). Sometimes they are wrong for cotton snakes or copper snakes and kill even if they are not dangerous to people.
these snakes live North American waterways such as rivers, ponds, isZera and streams. Northern Water Hads are night and day, hunting at night and day. During the day, the snake is looking for food far from the coast. At night, these snakes guard the shores of water in which they swim and look for intestinal in vegetation. Northern Water Hads also hunts on the ground and prey on small mammals.
The northern water snake diet is extremely diverse - amphibians, other reptiles, small mammals, fish and birds. These water snakes hide near Beaver Lodges and in plants such as cattails, Virginia Creeper and Poison Ivy, lying on frogs, turtles and leeches. Snake Northern Water can skip high into the air to catch low flying birds like Mallards.
Predators of the Northern Water snake usually include considerable mammals such as raccoon, Opssums, and foxes. Other snakes, such as copper and rats, prey on the snakes of northern water. Large birds such as herons, cormorars and owls include in theirdiet of northern water snakes.
When it is grasped by a human or animal, in the return of the snake northern water in return repeated and repeatedly bits and releases musk odor along with excrements. Although the bite is not poisonous, the northern water snakes inject an anticoagulant that causes the wound to continue bleeding. In some cases, this bites may lead to bacterial infection.
Northern Water Snake is generally successful in its water station and helps maintain the ecological balance of pest consumption that would otherwise exceed its habitat. This natural instinct is usually beneficial for humans, because oxen, mice and rats on which this snake prey are vectors of diseases and damage the gardens and crop fields.