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(#19) Voldemort's Snake Wasn't Randomly Named Nagini
In Buddhism and Hinduism there are types of deities that take the form of king cobras called nāgas. Their cultural significance varies between different regions and traditions, but some of the things they're commonly associated with are virility and natural disasters. Female nāgas are called "nāgini."
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(#7) The Inland Taipan Is The Most Venomous Snake In The World
Commonly called the fierce snake, these are found in the arid regions of central Australia. Snake venom toxicity is measured by median lethal dose, written as LD50. In testing on rats, the LD50 for inland taipan venom is .000025 grams per kilogram of body mass. To put that in perspective, the amount of venom an inland taipan can deliver in a single bit is potent enough to kill 100 adult human males.
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(#16) Snakes Have A 'Jacobson's Organ'
Snakes are visually distinctive for their forked tongues, which let them both smell and taste the air. The tongue collects particles from the air and then presses them up to the Jacobson's organ which analyzes the particles to direct the snake towards prey. The organ lies at the base of the nasal cavity.
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(#14) What Is Up With That Rattle?
The venomous rattlesnakes found in North America all have this distinctive tail feature. The rattle is made of a series of hollow, interlocked segments of keratin that vibrate when the snake contracts its tail muscles. The most widely accepted explanation for this feature and behavior is that it's meant to be a warning sign for predators.
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(#23) The Vast Terminology Of Snake Head Scales
There's an extensive vocabulary to describe the scales that cover a snake's head. They're mostly named for their positioning relative to the other features of a snake head. These include the preocular, presubocular and postocular scales around the eye for example.
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(#20) Digestion Is A Big Commitment
For snake species that feed only sporadically, they go into serious a food coma when digesting a big meal. Some snakes even increase their body temperature by as much as 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit due to their highly increased metabolisms.
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With regard to mysterious snakes, people from all over the world have created many myths and legends. Since ancient times, snakes have been worshiped and deified in many areas, symbolized power, wisdom, and renewal, people are afraid of these cold reptiles. There are more than 3,000 species of snakes on the blue planet, and about 1,000 of them are poisonous.
Snakes are one of the scariest animals on the planet, some of which are born with two heads, some can reproduce asexually. The random tool will tell you 25 unusual and interesting facts about snakes that you may not know before.
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