What is a vine?
"Snake" is a common name giving a series of snakes that share certain properties - they look like, live and sometimes behave like plant grapes. Within the Colubridae reptile family, which groups the world's majority of snakes, there are kinds of vines in several of its family subdivizes. The snakes are poisonous, but with one deadly exception, they are only slightly toxic for large mammals. Hypnotically beautiful, some have become popular terrarine pets. Most measure between 2.5-5 feet (0.75-1.5 meters) long, with their tails representing more than one third of the length. Their heads are appropriately narrow and narrowed to a sharp pointed muzzle. Although the most common in the equatorial tropics, there are species that also inhabit mild, even dry climate.
Most wine snakes in South America are categized in the Chironius genus. They are commonly called sipos after the Portuguese word for the type of wooden vine that rises tree trunks and creates bridges over the canopy of rainwaterSA. Snakes are arborreal. Mostly daily, although some are also active at night, these methodical predators to the prey to young birds who are attacked in their nest with quick blows. Another method of hunting used by Vine Snakes is to twist the tongue to mimic the worm or insects on the branch to lure frogs and lizards.
Another family of New World snakes, Oxybelis, moves further throughout Central America and in the north as a North American Southwest. They are suitable for their signature camouflage, wine snakes, chaparral deserts and dry forests are usually brown and some species are commonly called bronzebacks. Oxybelis characteristic is the black color of its oral cavity, which exposes prominently when it is endangered.
Morphologically very similar, the genus Ahaetulla, which inhabits India and Asia, comes in various colors and samples, including rainbow emerald green. This Division Vine Snakes Has JediDrop for most reptiles excellent binocular vision. Its pupil is in the shape of a keyhole and the grooved channel extends from each eye on the sides of its snout in the view of the weapon. When it scares, it can gently swing from side to side, either as a vine in the wind, or it could be fine -tuning its three -dimensional visual map.
One special type of Ahaetulla feeds on fish, observes and reaches them from branches of overhanging water. It is known that other species feed on rodents. The diverse diet and the excellent camouflage of this family made the vines in the exotic industry. Partly due to critical climate control, it is difficult to maintain captivity alive.
The only snake of vines killing man is in the sub -Saharan African genus Thelotornis. As a warning of a potential threat, these spent people could first inflate the neck area to reveal clearly contrasting colors of the skin under their otherwise masked scales. Like all the snakes of the vines are ilotornis opistoglyphic, with fangs you placeTogether towards the back of the upper jaw, just below the eyes.