Snakes are afraid or respected. Anxiety associated with the mass appearance of these reptiles in the gardens, in areas, begins to disturb the gardeners with the onset of spring heat. We are not talking about invasion. To cause concern, simply simply their presence. The main question: how to get rid of uninvited guests?
What causes people a rejection in the image of reptile? What is terrible in them?
Not always conscious rejection and even fear of people cause, as a rule, phenomena and objects unfamiliar, having an unusual, unusual appearance. Snakes have all these characteristics: no limbs, a fixed non-moving look (not at all with the aim of hypnotize, just there is no century, there is nothing to blink), a thin split language.
A much more fun base for caution and fear is the ability of some stem species to produce poison. It is this that makes people treat alert to the snakes. The soothing fact can be the fact that most of the dangerous poisonous snakes dangerous for the person live beyond the territory of the Russian Federation.
In most, people are perceived as a potential enemy any crawling reptile, without thinking about that, this is, a ceremony or a non-lawless lizard. Such a stereotype can lead to serious fluctuations in the number of reptiles: after all, people tend to exterminate animals dangerous for themselves.
Perceiving the appearance of reptiles in its plot as invasion, most people do not think that in fact they invaded the natural habitat of animals.
The most common in the territory of Russia can be considered ordinary worship and ordinary viper. It is a representative of the family of non-team snakes. Vijuki refer to the family of gadyukov - poisonous snakes.
Viper
In Russia, there are 9 species of representatives of the Gadyukov family. Among them are such rare, like a vigorous rhinoceros, brightly colored Caucasian Viper and Armenian viper, were listed in the Red Book of the Soviet Union. Violeka ordinary is common in the European part of Russia, in Siberia, in the Far Eastern region. In the north it meets even for the polar circle.The characteristic differences of Vijuki from other snakes is its dense physique, a triangular head and a short tail. The body dimensions rarely go beyond 70 cm. In a typical case, it will help to distinguish it from other snakes, the characteristic color will help: a beautiful zigzag-like black stripe contrasting with a lighter background.
The color of the back can vary from gray, brown to red-drier. However, the characteristic drawing remains unchanged. There may be completely black adult individuals. A large flat head is decorated with a X-shaped pattern and separated from the body with a noticeable neck interception.
The body of these reptiles is covered with scales. The pupil from the Vorki vertical, like a cat, unlike the horror, which has pupils round.
This animal is found in coniferous and mixed forests, as well as in the forest-steppe zone, appears on cutting, in wet shorts not far from the swamps, along the banks of rivers and lakes.
Watching the surface of the Earth, the Gaduki begin early in the spring, when the snow did not reach the forest in the forest. In the glades, well warmed by the Sun, is going to several tens of snakes. 3 months after the mating, the female brings from 8 to 12 young who passed the embryonic stage of development within the body of the mother. It also happens in a vivirate lizard.
Putyuk feeds mainly rodents, frogs, lizards, insects.
In warm weather, snakes prefer to bask in the sun. In the case of danger, including the approach of a person, Vijuk will try to wisely and hide, can only bite in response to provocation.
The upper jaw of viper is equipped with sharp long poisonous teeth, located horizontally and pressed to the neba. They are connected to the poisonous iron with special channels. At the time of the bite, the teeth take the vertical position, and on the channel inside, the poison enters the wound.
Ordinary
The length of the body in this non-libel snake can be twice as much as Vijuki is up to one and a half meters. The tail is long, and there is no neck interception between the torso and head.
There are two bright spots on the head, having a bright yellow color to bright orange. The exception is melanysts - absolutely black individuals. The head is covered only by large shields, in contrast to the viper, in which small combined with large. Overall body color Horny dark: from dark gray to black.
Frecks are common in Western Siberia, in the east of Kazakhstan.
The cubs hatch from eggs having dimensions from 5 to 7 cm.
Surrounding is often seen not far from the housing of a person. They can attract piles of dry leaves, manure, humid, straw, hay. In such places, optimal conditions for reproduction of reptiles are created, they use them as incubators.
Frecks are well swimming. A slightly grown horror successfully catch frogs, sometimes insects. Often, small lizards, rodents become victims of becoming.
Surrenders themselves in case of danger approaching, they try to hide and escape. However, they may try to scare the enemy, curling into the ball and making a sharp drop, accompanying this effect with a loud hissing. Bite the horny is not dangerous for a person.
To some extent, reduce the anxiety about meetings with snakes in our latitudes will help accurate knowledge of the differences of poisonous snakes from non-union, the ability to recognize them in nature. The optimal solution to the problem would be to study these animals in order to know about them as much as possible and recognize in appearance.
Author - Ekaterina Majorova
Source - Springzhizni.ru.