26Brown tree snakes
Brown tree snakes, when inadvertently introduced to Guam from the Solomon Islands, have eaten the entire island population of native birds and bats. To combat the population of snakes, the government has dropped dead mice packed with Tylenol into Guam's dense jungle canopy.
27. The decapitated head of a dead snake can still bite hours after death. Because dead snakes can't regulate how much venom they inject, such bites can often contain large amounts of venom.
28. When a snake in the Tokyo Zoo was given a live hamster (as a meal), they two became "best friends."
29. The northern copperhead snake smells like cucumbers
30. Sonoran Coral Snake, instead of hissing or rattling, farts when threatened
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31Wildlife conservation society offer
The Wildlife Conservation Society has, since the early 20th century, offered a large cash reward (currently worth US$50,000) for live delivery of any snake of 9 meters (30 ft) or more in length, but the prize has never been claimed, despite the numerous sightings of giant anacondas.
32. There have been 14 known fatalities in Britain from native adder bites since 1876. Recovery from a bite can take up to a year.
33. European Hedgehogs actually hunt Adders tiring them out by chasing them and biting them many times, then breaking their necks when the Adders can't run anymore.
34. Up until the early 1900's, there was an extensive population of Rattlesnakes in the Bronx. They were wiped out when Farmers let their pigs hunt them.
35. Anacondas mate in a giant "breeding ball" with 1 female and up to 12 males, and they stay in that position for over a month.
36Timber rattlesnake
A pastor died in 1983 after handling a timber rattlesnake during a Pentecostal service. About 29 years later his son died in the exact same way.
37. The muscle that causes a rattlesnake to rattle fires 50 times a second for up to 3 hours or 520,000 rattles without stopping
38. Rattlesnake antivenom costs $20,000 per vial. One Florida boy needed 75-80 vials, which adds up to about $1.6 million
39. In 2009, a Florida couple was charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter of their daughter after their pet Burmese python escaped its cage and squeezed the two-year-old to death.
40. If two rattlesnakes fight, they don’t use their fangs to poison the other.
41Google
On April 1, 2007, Google sent an email to its employees warning that a python was loose in its New York Office. It was not a joke.
42. Before the invention of anti-venom, the black mamba had a 100% fatality rate and its victims would be dead in about 20 minutes.
43. The interior of spitting cobras' fangs have ridges like those inside a rifle's barrel that allow it to shoot venom further.
44. In 2012, a Nepalese farmer named Mohammed Salmodin was bitten by a cobra and bit the cobra back. The cobra died and he went about his daily business with no symptoms as if nothing had happened. He finally agreed to go to the hospital after pressure from family, neighbors, and police.
45. In Vietnam, it is possible to order a cobra blood wine from the restaurant menu. The waiter will take a live cobra, kill it on the spot, drain the blood into a shot glass of rice wine, and top it off with the cobra's still beating heart for you to gulp down.
46Bounty on Cobras
When the English colonial government in Delhi, India put a bounty on cobras to eliminate them from the city, it resulted in a cobra population boom. The bounty was greater than the cost of breeding a cobra, and the citizens started breeding them to sell it to the government.
47. The Russell viper's bite can, in certain situations, make the victim go through a sort of reverse puberty.
48. The largest snake fossil ever discovered is called a Titanoboa. This creature lived 60 million years ago and would have been 50 feet (15 meters) long.
49. The pressure in an erect penis is over 100 torr, more than what a boa constrictor uses to suffocate its prey.
50. The Boa Constrictor is the only living animal which is commonly known by its full Latin name, boa constrictor. The only other example is the extinct Tyrannosaurus Rex.
