Snakes
There are over 3000 kinds
of snakes, this report will tell you about a few of them.
The king cobra of Asia is
the world’s longest poisonous snake. It grows to be more than 5 meters long. In
India cobras kill more than 7,000 people every year. The bite of a king cobra
can kill an elephant in an hour.
A sitting cobra squirts venom into its attacker’s eyes, it is
not deadly but it blinds the victim and is very painful. Constrictors are snakes that squeeze
victims to death instead of poisoning them. A constrictor does do not crush its
victim instead it winds itself around gradually tightening its coils until the
victim suffocates. They include pythons, boas and wait hiding motionless under
trees and waiting for victims to pass by. Boas capture their prey by lying. One
species of snake is a deadly viper, which has been recorded swallowing prey
that was 16 times its own body weight. All snakes can go for many weeks without
eating.
By James
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