Almost everywhere you can find snakes. Most often they live on land, but some species prefer trees to hide underground, in rivers and lakes. When it is cold outside, they fall asleep.
Snakes are predators. Poisonous snakes attack prey and bite it, injecting poison. Other species strangle her, squeezing the rings of her body. Most often, they swallow the whole animal caught. Most of them reproduce by laying eggs, but there are also live-living ones.
The size most often does not exceed 1 m. But there are both very large individuals, such as the reticulated python, and very small ones growing up to 10 cm. Many of them are most often safe for humans, feed on insects or their larvae. They are easily confused with worms.
We bring to your attention a list of the 10 smallest snakes in the world: photos with the names of world record holders, some of which are poisonous.
List
- 10. Copperwort ordinary, 70 cm
- 9. Peaceful Eirenis, 60 cm
- 8. Japanese, 50 cm
- 7. Striated pigeon, 45 cm
- 6. Arizona Aspid, 40 cm
- 5. Common blind snake, 38 cm
- 4. Calamaria Linnaeus, 33 cm
- 3. Dwarf African viper, 25 cm
- 2. Brahmin blind man, 15 cm
- 1. Barbados snake, 10 cm
10. Copperwort ordinary, 70 cm
The body length of this snake is about 60-70 cm, males are smaller in size than females. Common Copper lives in Europe. He chooses glades, sunny edges, meadows for life, avoiding places with increased dampness. But if necessary, these snakes swim well.
The peak of activity of this snake is the period of morning and evening, prefers to appear during the day, but occasionally leaves its shelter in the dark. It hides in the burrows of rodents, in the voids that form under stones and cracked rocks.
Medyanka preys on lizards, sometimes eats mice, chicks and various small vertebrates. First, compresses the rings of his body. It is active for about six months, already in September or in October it goes into hibernation. A snake becomes sexually mature at 3-5 years old, when its length reaches 38-48 cm. It lives about 12 years.
9. Peaceful Eirenis, 60 cm
Belongs to the family already. Adults do not grow more than 60 cm. They are beige, brown or gray. The heads are usually dark, behind the eyes there is a spot that resembles an “M”, but over time this head color changes.
Peaceful Eirenis lives on many islands in the Mediterranean as well as the Aegean Sea, it can be found in open areas in the steppe or rocky slopes, where there are many plants. In the afternoon, he disguises himself in their thickets, and in the evening crawls out of his hiding place. It feeds on insects. Spends the winter in hibernation, from November to April it will not work to see him.
8. Japanese, 50 cm
Lives in China, Japan, Korea, and Russia. He chooses for life broad-leaved or mixed forests, thickets of shrubs, such as raspberries, rose hips.
It’s not so easy to see her, because japanese already - a secretive snake, most of the time hiding under the ground, hiding under stones, trees, stumps. It is tiny, up to 50 cm, brown, sometimes lighter, brown, belly - greenish.
Eats clams, earthworms and small frogs. Young snakes - from 11.5 cm in size, they are considered adults, growing to 32-36 cm.
7. Striated pigeon, 45 cm
It grows no more than 45 cm. Striated Wolfhawk black or brown. You can meet this snake in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, India, Sri Lanka, etc.
Chooses mountains or foothills with semi-desert vegetation for life. Appears from shelter at night or dusk, during the day prefers to hide in the burrows of rodents, under stones, in cracks. Eats small lizards.
6. Arizona Aspid, 40 cm
Belongs to the family aspidov. He has an incredibly thin body with a small head. The body is all in stripes of red, yellow and black. Lives in the deserts of the southwestern United States and Mexico.
It feeds on insects, lizards, and small amphibians. If the snake sees that it is in danger, it begins to draw into the lungs and exhale it rhythmically. In this case, a number of clapping sounds appear.
5. Common blind snake, 38 cm
They call her differently. worm-shaped blind snake. This is a small snake, the length of which with the tail does not exceed 38 cm. It is very similar to an earthworm, with an incredibly short tail. The color is brownish or slightly red.
Common blind snake molt right in the soil. It occurs in Dagestan, in Asia Minor, Syria, the Balkan Peninsula, etc. He chooses for himself dry and gentle slopes, bushes. Its minks are narrow, resembling the moves of worms, can occupy the nests of ants.
Tries to hide under the stones. If you move them away, the snake quickly goes into the ground. In the spring he wakes up from hibernation in March and April, and hides in the ground on the driest and hottest summer days.
4. Calamaria Linnaeus, 33 cm
Non-toxic. It was named after the Swedish naturalist Carl von Linnaeus. Length Kalamaria Linnaeus does not exceed 33 cm. She is constantly hiding. Finding her is not so simple. Eats worms and insects.
This type of snake has a lot of enemies. To hide from them, she developed a special way of protection: the end of the tail is the same color as the head. She sets her tail to the attacker, while she crawls away from danger at this time. The tail is not such a big loss as the head, it helps her survive.
3. Dwarf African viper, 25 cm
Listed as African vipers, poisonous. She is small in size: from 20 to 25 cm, the maximum length is 32 cm. The longest and heaviest are females. They are distinguished by a thick body of gray or reddish-yellow color with small dark spots.
Dwarf african viper lives in the sandy deserts of Angola and Nambia, i.e. in the Namib desert and the regions located next to it. If he sees imminent danger, hides in the sand. In the afternoon it is laid down in the shade of shrubs, buried in the sand. It is active at dusk and at night.
Eats small lizards, geckos, invertebrates. If a person bites, pain and swelling will appear, but its poison can not be called deadly, because she introduces it in small doses. Lizards die from it only 10-20 minutes after a bite.
2. Brahmin blind man, 15 cm
A small snake, from 10 to 15 cm long, is painted in brown-black colors. When you look at it, it seems that a small stream of oil is flowing. Sometimes it is gray or reddish brown.
Brahmin blind man called and potted snakebecause she can live in flower pots. It is found in nature on the islands of the Indian and Pacific Ocean, in the south of Asia. Settled on a large territory thanks to people who transported it along with potted plants.
He lives in the ground or hides under stones, eats insects and worms. They are called blindfolk for a reason, but because, due to their existence underground, the vision of these snakes atrophied and they can only tell where it is light and where it is dark.
1. Barbados snake, 10 cm
It lives only on the island of Barbados. In 2008 Barbados found a biologist from the US Blair Hage. Lifting one stone, he found several snakes, the largest of which was 10 cm 4 mm.
In appearance, snakes are spilled earthworms. Most of their lives they hide under stones or in minks in the ground, which they themselves create. It feeds on ants, termites and their larvae. She highlights a special secret that helps her penetrate their nests and eat larvae.
The newborn snake is even smaller than the mother, i.e. about 5 cm. Often, only 1 cub appears in one individual. They are called narrow-necked because they have a special mouth structure: there are no teeth in the upper jaw, they are all on the lower.