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How to Identify a Poisonous Snake
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Tags: Snakes, Poisonous Snake, Identifing Snakes, Garden Pests
It's usually best to stay away from all snakes, but if you are very intrested in them it's good to be able to tell if they are venomous or not. Read the whole page to find out some ways to tell. If you see only one or some of the things venomous or nonvenomous snakes have try to stay away from them.
| 1. | Nonvenomous snakes usually have a round pupil in the eye. I wouldn't suggest this way to find out because it is very hard to tell if they do. |
| 2. | Nonvenomous snakes have only one color most of the time. This is only most of the time so if you see a snake that is one color don't go running up to it! Just check for the other ways you can tell. |
| 3. | If the snake has stripes all the way from head to tail it's probablly a nonvenomous snake. This is only if the snake you are looking at has stripes. |
| 4. | Also nonvenomous snakes have a spoon-shaped round head. |
| 5. | Venomous snakes have an eliptical pupil like a cats eye. It looks like a small slit in the middle of the eye. |
| 6. | If they have a rattle on their tail, it is a venomous snake because all snakes that have rattles are rattlesnakes of course. All rattlesnakes are venomous! Some non-venomous snakes rattle their tails though, but have tails that come to a tip, and do not have the rattle "buttons" on them that sound like little salt shakers. |
| 7. | They also will have an arrow-shaped or triangular wide head if they're venomous. |
| 8. | A venomous snake also will have a small depression in between the eye and their nostril. This is called a pit which is used to sense heat in their prey. |
| 9. | Snakes can make it very tricky to tell the difference so watch out! |
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