Yellow snake: varieties and features

Snakes cause conflicting emotions in different people. Some are panically afraid and freeze with fear at the sight of any snake, others admire their grace and perfection and are eager to consider closer. What to expect, if on your way suddenly met a yellow snake? Are they poisonous and aggressive? Answer to these questions will help familiarize yourself with information about the most common types of yellow snakes.

Popular and harmless

If on your way you met a yellow snake, or more precisely, a reptile with characteristic marks of this color on your head, then, most likely, before you really ordinary. Snakes of this species are most common, they can be found in any corner of our planet. Variations in their color and size may be slightly different, but in general the horror can easily be determined by knowing its main external characteristics:

• Dins have a homogeneous color of the back. From dark green to greenish-gray color.
• The head is not too wide, it smoothly passes from the trunk, without noticeable expansion.
• It is a snake with yellow spots on the head, which are placed from its sides. Slightly less often they can be white or beige.
• The size of the usual snakes varies from 50 to 80 centimeters in length, the diameter does not exceed 5 centimeters.

The named reptile chooses a humid climate with a lot of stones, stumps or branches for the opportunity to hide. Therefore, the greatest likelihood to meet these snakes - on the shore of water bodies, forest lakes. Also, these snakes swim well, so if you encounter a snake when swimming in a pond - do not panic, most likely, that's it. He is not aggressive, a man can bite only for the purpose of self-defense, and his bite is absolutely harmless and shallow.

Yellow belly and slender body

Going to travel to the steppe region with a dry climate, as well as to the mountains, you need to know the features of such a snake, like the yellow-bellied skid. These snakes reach a very large size, an average of 2 meters in length. At the same time, the diameter of their torso is small, not more than 7 centimeters, due to this effect of the slides always remains a "slender" snake.

The strop is a yellow snake, which is very aggressive. If she feels danger at the sight of a person, then she can strike a warning blow and attack first. She moves extremely fast, sharply and actively. In a fit of attack, it can even jump to a fairly high altitude to bite the victim in an unprotected place.

To distinguish a skid is not difficult: in addition to the characteristically slender body, it is distinguished by color, which served as the reason for the name. The back of the skid can be a gray-green or dark-olive color, but the belly is always in yellow shades.

If you meet a yellow-belly skid in your path, you should not make sharp movements and gradually move away from the snake, so as not to provoke an attack of her aggression.

Conditionally poisonous beauty

Now most of our compatriots prefer to spend their holidays in the warm tropical regions. On the territory of such countries popular for holidaymakers, like Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines, there is a snake with a yellow head - mangrove.

Snakes of this species belong to the family of the former, but they have a number of significant differences from the harmless snakes we know.

Mangrove snake is quite large: it can reach two and a half meters in length and 6 - 8 centimeters in diameter. Her head, like the horror, does not stand out too much against the background of the trunk. The back color is dark green, almost black, but the lower part of the head is painted bright yellow. Yellow strips go all over the stomach, gradually decreasing to the tail.

Mangrove snake is conditionally poisonous. This means that her bite can have a toxic effect on a person, expressed by fever, swelling, painful sensations, but does not carry a mortal danger. This kind of snake is not aggressive, but it is quite capable of biting for the purpose of protection. In the daytime, mangrove snakes rest on the branches of trees, where they easily creep. Therefore, traveling through the rainforests, you need to be extremely attentive.

Yellow-black danger

The most dangerous for a person is a yellow snake called krayt. It lives in India, Thailand, in the south of Asia. You can distinguish the snake krayt by the following signs:

• Small size - an average of one and a half meters in length;
• Bright color of yellow and black stripes ;
• A body compressed laterally, resembling a triangle in section;
• A distinctly prominent head that is slightly wider than the trunk.

Snake krayt leads a nocturnal lifestyle - at this time she is very active and quite aggressive. During the day, the snake rests and shows no sign of hostility, even if a person approaches a short distance.

The bite of such a beauty almost always leads to a lethal outcome, even the serum introduced on time does not significantly increase the chances of survival. Despite the serene behavior of this snake during the day, after meeting it, do not take risks and try to look closer. It is best to leave without making sudden movements. And in the evening it is necessary to exercise extreme caution and carefully examine the place of a walk and overnight stay for snakes.

Snakes can cause different emotions: they can be loved, and you can be afraid. But in any case, you need to know the main signs of poisonous and dangerous reptiles in order to behave properly in a casual encounter.