DEADLYANDINGCREDIBLE ANIMALS t Many animals are deadly to other animals They are deadly to their prey and sometimes even to their predators Over many thousands of years these animals have developed incredible behaviors and features to find food to defend themselves from predators and to protect their young Deadly and Incredible Features and Behaviors Different types of animals have different deadly features and behaviors Deadly and incredible features include strong jaws razor sharp teeth and stingers or fangs for injecting venom into prey Deadly and incredible behaviors include stalking hunting and distracting prey before attacking and killing it Animals such as lions use their incredible size and strength to smash crush and rip apart their prey Excellent eyesight helps many nocturnal animals hunt their prey under the cover of even the darkest night A snake uses its venom to keep its prey still so it can swallow it
DEADLY AND INCREDIBLE SNAKES In deserts forests jungles and even in your backyard there live some of the world's most deadly and incredible snakes IN THIS BOOK In this book you will read about the top 10 deadliest land snakes on Earth from number 10 least deadly to number 1 most deadly There are many different opinions on which snake should top this list The snakes in this book have been selected on how poisonous their venom is the amount that they inject and how they attack their prey What Are Snakes Snakes are vertebrates that are part of a group called reptiles They are scaly cold blooded animals that use their environment to warm their bodies Land snakes can be found on every continent except Antarctica VW Snakes such as this eastern brown snake will attack if disturbed or threatened Venomous snakes Around the World There are about 725 different species of venomous snakes worldwide including sea snakes Venomous snakes are meat eaters that hunt other animals Their venom is used to keep their prey still so it can be swallowed
FEATURES OF ENOMOUS SNAKES Venomous snakes have many features and behaviors in common These deadly and incredible features and behaviors help snakes to survive in the environments in which they live Detecting Prey Snakes have forked tongues that sense smells in the air or along the ground The tongue passes in and out of the Snake's mouth over a special part of the mouth called the Jacobson's organ which helps the snake sense other animals A snake uses its tongue to sense if there is an animal nearby and to work out the animal's location Venom All venomous snakes produce venom Snake venom is poisonous saliva It is produced in the saliva glands of venomous snakes A snake uses its venom when hunting or in defense A snake might use its venom when it is in danger Some Snakes can spit their venom when they are
Fangs All venomous snakes have fangs to inject venom into their prey Most snakes fangs are fixed in the front of their mouths Some snakes such as vipers have fangs that move When these fangs are not in use they fold back against the top of the snake s mouth The fangs move forward when the snake opens its mouth and is ready to strike or attack Each of a snake's fangs has a tube like hole through the middle which allows the venom to pass through the fang and into the prey Flexible Jaw dible A snake's jaw is incredibly flexible It is made up of several sections which can separate and MS Most experts believe the venom of allow the mouth to open extremely wide the inland taipan is the deadliest of all land snakes venom Its venom contains A snake usually swallows enough poison to kill 100 its prey head first so that it healthy adult males However travels smoothly down the there have been no recorded snake's throat human deaths from its
