Re: The difference between difference between types of snakes
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Originally Posted by
iknowthetruth
but if they all kill by constriction ( rat snakes, corn snakes, pythons, and boas) is the things that classify them as different their size and the way they look?
This is something that you should really endeavor to learn on your own. The taxonomy of snakes is something that deserves to be researched. There is no easy answer to this question on a forum.
Re: The difference between difference between types of snakes
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Originally Posted by
MarkS
LOL, there really weren't a whole lot of animal laws in the books back then. Importers could ship in pretty much anything they wanted to.
When I first began importing thrasops, it was not uncommon to have a couple of dispholidus mistakenly thrown in........................while they are sister species, only the black variants of the boomers look like jackson's.
After the first couple of shipments, I talked to my collector and straightened things out.
Re: The difference between difference between types of snakes
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Originally Posted by
Skiploder
My first snake (when I was a kid) was a hognose.
A couple of years later, I wanted to get a second snake. I saved up my money all winter shoveling snow out of driveways and decks and had my dad drive me to the pet store to pick out a new snake.
They had a pair of beautifully colored snakes in a glass tank. For fifty bucks, I bought the pair. They were a male and female yamakagashi (later found out to be rhabdophis tigirinis - Japanese spp.).
This was the seventies, and no one knew anything about these snakes.
It was later discovered that these were venomous snakes, with a hemorrhagic venom similar to that of dispholidus typus - the boomslang.
It was also discovered that these are on of the world's only poisonous snakes.........but that came much much later.
They were the first snake I bred - and sold the babies to local pet stores that carried reptiles.
When I was about 17 years old, I came home from school and my mother told me that a person from Scales and Tails had called and that I needed to call him back. When I called him back he told me that there had been a news article about several deaths attributed to these snakes and that I needed to pick up the babies that I had dropped off a few weeks before.
To make a long story short, I have had these animals in my collection for over 30 years and have never had one offer any to bite. I've been bitten by more pits than any of the rear fangers I keep.
http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0129-snake.html
Is this the same snake...it says that its venom it gets from eating poisonous frogs and toads. So does that mean if you don't feed it these animals, that they become no longer venomous? Like the poison dart frog?
Re: The difference between difference between types of snakes
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Originally Posted by
iknowthetruth
http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0129-snake.html
Is this the same snake...it says that its venom it gets from eating poisonous frogs and toads. So does that mean if you don't feed it these animals, that they become no longer venomous? Like the poison dart frog?
The snakes "harvests" the alkaloids from the amphibians. If they are denied an amphibian diet, they do not produce the poison.
I have never seen a captive rodent-fedtigrinus secrete nuchal posion.
