Which snakes are good at what kinds of movement (e.g. gliding, climing, swimming, etc)?
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Well, most of the "agile" snakes belong to the large and varied family Colubridae. This group includes good swimmers, climbers, etc. Generally they have slim elongated bodies, with no marked neck area, and they move by lateral undulations.\n\nThe family Elapidae (cobras, mambas, coral snakes) also includes agile species, especially on trees; and the only marine species are part of this family (sea snakes). Sea snakes undulate their bodies (and especially their tails) from side to side. \n\nIn contrast, most members of family Viperidae are slower and terrestrial, with more robust bodies and short tails. They also use "serpentine" lateral undulations. \n\nThe heaviest snakes (eg. boas and pythons) are good but slower climbers and slitherers. They move in a straight line, by a combination of movements of their large ventral scales, which is slower but powerful. \n\nThere are also primitive burrowing snakes (e.g. families Typhlopidae and Leptotyphlopidae). These use accordion-like movements to move below the ground in their burrows.
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The shape of the articular surfaces of the vertebrae give good clues as to the types of movements that they allow. \nFish have amphicelous vertebrae, that is, with both surfaces concave. Fishes have primarily lateral movements of the body axis. \nIn tetrapods, in addition to the main articular surfaces, there are apophyses that restrict dorsoventral movements between adjacent vertebrae. They are called zygapophyses and are situated anterodorsally and posterodorsally in each vertebra.\nIn tetrapods the vertebrae may have one convex surface and one concave surface (complementary), or other shapes. If they have anterior concavity they're called procoelous, and if the concavity is in the posterior surface they're opisthocelous. Amphibians and reptiles have procoelous, opisthocoelous or amphicoelous vertebrae. These type of joints permit much lateral movement (except in frogs that have a shortened vertebrate column, and no tail).\nThe neck vertebrae of birds are heterocoelous: their articular surfaces have the shape of a horse saddle and this allows greater mobility (some birds are able to rotate their heads 180º). \nIn mammals the vertebrae are amphiplatyan, with both surfaces flat; mammals do not move their column laterally, but there is dorsoventral undulation when running. The xenarthrans (armadillos, sloths and giant anteaters) have special additional articulations that make their lumbar area more rigid when they stand on their hindlegs.
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snakes are immune to there on venom but not to other species\nof snakes
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1. Malayan Krait \n2. Saw Scaled Viper\n3. King Cobra
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Birds have one, snakes have one, and i believe a few of the lizards only have one.
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First, cobras do not live in the wild in the USA.  Those which do are American Copperheads/Cotton mouths, Timber Rattlers, Diamondbacks, and Coral.
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you have to know alittle about them check out this site its a guide on how to tell if a snake  is venomous\nhttp://www.kingsnake.com/snakegetters/snake.html
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Depends on which species.  Some tree frogs, like the boreal chorus frog (Pseudacris triseriata) probably only hop a few centimeters at best.  Others, such as the Chinese gliding tree frog (Polypedates dennysi) can glide for considerable distances between trees after a leap, as far as 30 to 50 feet.
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1. King Cobra\n2. Sea snake\n3. Black mamba\n4. Fierce snake, or inland tiapan\n5. Eastern brown\n6. Spitting cobra\n7. Saw scaled viper\n8. Green water moccasin\n9. Copperhead\n10. Bushmaster.
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Snakes, lizards and amphisbaena (which most of you won't have heard of, but they're neat!) have "hemipenes", basically dual penises.  It has no real advantage, it's just how they evolved.  They only use one at a time.  It's just a different way to evolve a penis structure on a bilaterally symmetrical animal.
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If you mean where can you find info about them I would think any animal encyclopedia would be helpful.  There are horned toads (really lizards), other lizards, various snakes, desert rodents, scorpions and spiders, mountain lions, road runners, eagles and hawks and of course other birds.
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Snakes, like other reptiles, are built around moisture conservation. Most snakes and lizards don't even pee, let alone sweat! They excrete their uric acid in a solid pellet. If they sweated, they would have to top up on moisture, which would be difficult and dangerous for many species. By not having to drink free-standing water, reptiles are able to occupy some of the driest environments on earth. As has been pointed out, most reptiles are what are called "shuttling heliotherms", moving in and out of the sun to maintain a constant body temperature. Sankes, having a large surface area in relation to their mass, tend to heat up more quickly than lizards. They can absorb heat through the ground as well, which is called being "thigmothermic" -which makes one wonder if they get warm by beating up other reptiles they would be "thugmothermic" ;-). \n\nSnakes shed their skin periodically and for a variety of reasons- not only to allow them to grow, but also if they have any sort of parasites. It is only the outermost layer of the skin that is shed, but there is usually a little bit of pigment in the shed skin and this often allows the  pattern, although not the colour of the snake that shed the skin to be ascertained. Humans shed their skin too, we call it dandruff. Most household dust is shed skin of people.
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Reptiles : 1-Anaconda\n           2-Lizards\n\nAmphibians : 1-Poison Arrow Frog\n             2-Giant Tree Frog\n\nBirds :1-Hummingbirds\n       2-FlowerPecker\n\nMammals : 1-Jaguar\n          2-Gorilla
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dolphin or the kookaburra\n\nwhy don't you try one of them :)
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The Elapids (the group of venomous snakes to which the cobras belong) only evolved about 15 million years ago.\n\nThe only snakes around in the Mesozoic would have been similar to the pythons and boas of today.\n\nThe largest group of living snakes, the Colubroids (which include the Elapids, vipers, sea snakes, garter snakes, king snakes, and most other groups of living snake) only evolved about 20 million years ago, making the late Cenozoic the era of highest adaptive radiation among the snakes.
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cockroaches have exoskeletons
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most of the animals mentioned so far can swim, but they are so inefficient at it they are never seen doing it. There are a very select number of animals in the entire world who are physically incapable of swimming, and the majority of them have adapted to living in places where water is almost non-existent. The food of small desert reptiles can include tiny herbivorous organisms such as flying insectoids that are happy to sit on still water, and are highly bouyant, but are incapable of directional swimming on the surface or underwater (Its easier to simply fly for these animals, so the ability was never needed and thus never developed).