We collected in one article 30 interesting and fun facts about snakes. The first of the snake facts: there are more than 2200 species of snakes in the world. Twenty percent of all snakes are poisonous.
Snakes have no sense of hearing but they do pick up vibrations.
Snakes are not intelligent – they lack the part of the brain that controls the ability to think and learn.
All snakes have eyes that are lidless.
Some snakes are born and some hatch from eggs.
Snakes live in every part of the world, although there is much greater diversity in snakes in warm climates.
No one knows for sure how long many snakes live, but some snakes in captivity have lived to be in the range of thirty years.
The majority of human beings have an instinctive fear of snakes.
Snakes control their body temperature by the heat from the sun.
Snakes bite humans if they smell like food, they’re afraid, or they think you are a threat to them.
One of the smallest of snakes, a ground snake is five inches long.
A python is one of the largest snakes at 30 feet long and weighing 200 lbs.
Snakes only eat when hungry so they can go from 5 days to 6 months between meals.
One of the non-comforting snake facts is that snakes can have 200 teeth.
Snakes do not chew but they do bite.
Snakes can eat prey up to three times bigger than its mouth. This is because the snake’s mouth has tendons that stretch.
Another one of the snake facts that is documented is that on a couple of occasions, a snake has eaten a tiger. Obviously, it was a very large snake.
Some snakes are much more aggressive than others.
Snakes move because of muscles that attach to their ribs. These muscles grab onto things on the surface they are crawling on. If you put a smooth surface, like glass, under a snake he would not be able to crawl.
Arboreal snakes are snakes who can climb trees.
There are both male and female snakes.
Snakes have many of the same organs as humans–heart, kidneys, lungs.
Snakes are not all that slow–traveling from 3-5 mph normally.
Snakes carry salmonella bacteria in their feces.
Many venomous snakes have diamond or triangular shaped heads.
Not all rattlesnakes rattle.
Small snakes live by eating insects.
Large snakes eat small and large animals.
Poisonous snakes fall into two categories – Elapids and Viperids.
The Elapid category of poisonous snakes contains cobras, mambas, kraits, Australian Copperheads, coral snakes and sea snakes.
The Viperid category of poisonous snakes includes vipers, rattlesnakes, copperheads, bushmasters and adders.
