Green Snake: 105 Photos and Videos of Habitat and Lifestyle

Review author: “ZooVita”

Today, more than 1,000 species of reptiles are known. Each species differs in its appearance, diet, habitat and coloring. Vivid representatives of flora and fauna are considered dangerous to the human and animal body.

The fact is that the internal glands of snakes secrete a toxic liquid that enters the bloodstream when bitten. Snake venom provokes rapid clotting of blood cells and further death of the contact person.

Green snakes are especially popular among researchers. Let's take a closer look at the representatives with a characteristic shade.

What does a green boiga look like?

The reptile's body reaches 150 cm in length. This is a fairly large green snake. Her thin body resembles a triangular cross-section. The eye color of the individual is blue or turquoise. Body color is green with shades of pink or blue. The skin of younger representatives is slightly lighter.

The venom of the green boga is not as poisonous as that of the mangrove boga.

Literature

Boie, F. 1827 Bemerkungen über Merrem's Versuch eines Systems der Amphibien, 1. Lieferung: Ophidier. Isis van Oken, Jena, 20: 508–566.
Boulenger, G. A. 1894 On the herpetological fauna of Palawan and Balabac. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 14: 81-90
Dowling, Herndon G. 1958 A taxonomic study of the ratsnakes VI. Validation of the genera Gonyosoma Wagler and Elaphe Fitzinger Copeia 1958 (1): 29-40
Gray, J. E. 1849 Description of three new genera and species of snakes. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) 4: 246—248

Habitat

The snake lives in a humid environment. The tropics in southern Asia are suitable for her. Boiga also lives in the south of Vietnam and Cambodia.

Green snake venom

Boiga is very poisonous. One bite is enough to cause a tumor to form. The consequences are vomiting, chills, nausea, dizziness.

Fortunately, no deaths occur. After two or three days the person returns to his normal state. The small teeth of boiga are carriers of poison.

Green Boyga Foods

Green boiga is unpretentious in nutrition. She usually eats small rodents, frogs, birds, and insects. One serving size is quite large. A newborn snake eats a baby mouse or a whole chicken.

When kept at home, the green boyga is fed to lizards, frogs and birds.

Contents in home terrariums

When purchasing these representatives, it is necessary to take into account the conditions of their maintenance, which will allow them to extend their life cycle. To do this, it is necessary to take into account a number of requirements:

Volumetric terrarium;
Temperature conditions exceeding 30 degrees;
The humidity level should reach up to 95%;
The resting places of the serpents are decorated with dry branches;
The bottom of the terrarium is covered with coconut shavings or sawdust.

During the incubation period, the female must be placed in a separate enclosure. In one clutch in captivity, it can produce up to 10 eggs. After this, the egg clutch is placed in a small container, the humidity inside of which should reach 25-29 degrees. The incubation period can vary between 80-150 days.

Green mamba

The green mamba snake is one of the most dangerous in the world. The green snake has another name - the devil. She was given this nickname due to the fact that she attacks the victim with lightning speed and without warning.

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Green reptiles

There are several names for green snakes. This list includes:

Herbaceous green whipweed;
Green runner;
Green Mamba;
Common viper;
Hampton's Snake;
Chinese big;
Short green.

What does a green mamba look like?

The body of the green mamba reaches a length of almost one hundred and fifty centimeters. The color of the scales is usually dark green.

The shape of the head is rectangular, slightly separated from the body. Not all of a snake's teeth are poisonous. Only the two large front teeth carry the deadly substance. The reptile's scales shimmer in shades of yellow and blue.

There are also small species of green snakes. As a rule, these are young representatives. They are only seven centimeters long. As the mamba matures, it becomes larger and longer.

An excerpt characterizing the Green Snake

- Go, go! - Anatole shouted. Balaga was about to leave the room. “No, stop,” said Anatole. - Close the doors, I need to sit down. Like this. “They closed the doors and everyone sat down. - Well, now march, guys! - Anatole said standing up. The footman Joseph handed Anatoly a bag and a saber, and everyone went out into the hall. -Where is the fur coat? - said Dolokhov. - Hey, Ignatka! Go to Matryona Matveevna, ask for a fur coat, a sable cloak. “I heard how they were taking away,” Dolokhov said with a wink. - After all, she will jump out neither alive nor dead, in what she was sitting at home; you hesitate a little, there are tears, and dad, and mom, and now she’s cold and back - and you immediately take him into a fur coat and carry him into the sleigh. The footman brought a woman's fox cloak. - Fool, I told you sable. Hey, Matryoshka, sable! – he shouted so that his voice was heard far across the rooms. A beautiful, thin and pale gypsy woman, with shiny black eyes and black, curly, bluish-tinged hair, in a red shawl, ran out with a sable cloak on her arm. “Well, I’m not sorry, you take it,” she said, apparently timid in front of her master and regretting the cloak. Dolokhov, without answering her, took the fur coat, threw it on Matryosha and wrapped her up. “That’s it,” said Dolokhov. “And then like this,” he said, and lifted the collar near her head, leaving it only slightly open in front of her face. - Then like this, see? - and he moved Anatole’s head to the hole left by the collar, from which Matryosha’s brilliant smile could be seen. “Well, goodbye, Matryosha,” said Anatole, kissing her. - Eh, my revelry is over here! Bow to Steshka. Well, goodbye! Goodbye, Matryosha; wish me happiness. “Well, God grant you, prince, great happiness,” said Matryosha, with her gypsy accent. There were two troikas standing at the porch, two young coachmen were holding them. Balaga sat down on the front three, and, raising his elbows high, slowly took apart the reins. Anatol and Dolokhov sat down with him. Makarin, Khvostikov and the footman sat in the other three. - Are you ready, or what? – asked Balaga. - Let go! - he shouted, wrapping the reins around his hands, and the troika rushed down Nikitsky Boulevard. - Whoa! Come on, hey!... Whoa, - you could only hear the cry of Balaga and the young man sitting on the box. On Arbat Square, the troika hit a carriage, something crackled, a scream was heard, and the troika flew down Arbat. Having given two ends along Podnovinsky, Balaga began to hold back and, returning back, stopped the horses at the intersection of Staraya Konyushennaya. The good fellow jumped down to hold the horses' bridles, Anatol and Dolokhov walked along the sidewalk. Approaching the gate, Dolokhov whistled. The whistle responded to him and after that the maid ran out. “Go into the yard, otherwise it’s obvious he’ll come out now,” she said. Dolokhov remained at the gate. Anatole followed the maid into the yard, turned the corner and ran onto the porch. Gavrilo, Marya Dmitrievna’s huge traveling footman, met Anatoly. “Please see the lady,” the footman said in a deep voice, blocking the way from the door. - Which lady? Who are you? – Anatole asked in a breathless whisper. - Please, I've been ordered to bring him. - Kuragin! back,” Dolokhov shouted. - Treason! Back! Dolokhov, at the gate where he stopped, was struggling with the janitor, who was trying to lock the gate behind Anatoly as he entered. Dolokhov, with his last effort, pushed the janitor away and, grabbing the hand of Anatoly as he ran out, pulled him out the gate and ran with him back to the troika. Marya Dmitrievna, finding a tearful Sonya in the corridor, forced her to confess everything. Having intercepted Natasha’s note and read it, Marya Dmitrievna, with the note in her hand, went up to Natasha. “Bastard, shameless,” she told her. - I don’t want to hear anything! - Pushing away Natasha, who was looking at her with surprised but dry eyes, she locked it and ordered the janitor to let through the gate those people who would come that evening, but not to let them out, and ordered the footman to bring these people to her, sat down in the living room, waiting kidnappers. When Gavrilo came to report to Marya Dmitrievna that the people who had come had run away, she stood up with a frown and folded her hands back, walked around the rooms for a long time, thinking about what she should do. At 12 o'clock at night, feeling the key in her pocket, she went to Natasha's room. Sonya sat in the corridor, sobbing.

Green Mamba Lifestyle

The reptile does not often descend from the branches. She feels great surrounded by foliage. Thanks to the green coloration of the body, the snake remains unnoticed by predators. Mamba sleeps, eats, and even reproduces in trees.

By nature, the green mamba is not very aggressive, but very timid. The time of attack on the victim falls during the day, although it is almost impossible to see her during daylight hours. The reptile begins to hunt only when threatened with death.

Mamba constantly changes his place of residence. She climbs trees, always stopping at different ones.

Snake venom

Green snake venom is very toxic. The cobra has a less dangerous lethal substance.

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What does a snake eat?

The green mamba typically eats rodents, bird eggs, frogs, small insects, and tea leaves.

The reptile is not only dangerous, but also insidious. She hides among the leaves while the tea leaves are being collected. Usually no one bothers the snake. However, she herself throws herself at the person from above.

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