Oh - a large snake in the middle of her body has a length of up to ninety centimeters.However, some individuals reach one and a half meters.On top of the snake's body color brown, black or olive.Top reptile covered with black spots, are staggered.But the most expressive feature of which she has - two bright orange spots on the sides of the head and neck.Let's look closely to it closely.
Cute snake: it was - description and habitat
This reptile is ubiquitous in Europe.It is not only found in the north of England and in some areas of Scandinavia.In Russia, you can find three subspecies of ten.Oh - a snake that lives in ponds.As stagnant and filled with tap water.Also on the coast and in the marshy lowlands.Snake good swimmer, holding his head high above the water, dives and is not afraid to swim far out to sea.No problem too snake rises high in the mountains.It is resistant to pressure drops.Reptile hiding under piles of stones and branches, in the interstices of the roots of a large tree in the abandoned burrows of rodents.If the ground is soft and friable, it may itself prodelyvat it moves.Oh - snake, which is often seen near human settlements.He is active most of the year - at the end of March to November.It feeds on amphibians, lizards and relatively rarely included in their menu small fish.His victims already swallowed alive and whole.Sometimes he catches even small birds or mammals.During mating snakes gather in large groups, forming clusters.The female lays eggs in late August there are juveniles.The snakes are not poisonous.That is why the need to learn and remember their outward signs.Because the snake, like a snake, it may be actually poisonous.Activity snakes exhibit a day, spending the night in shelters.Hunt more at dawn and dusk.Often the snake can be seen when it is basking in the sun, lying on the bumps, branches and warm stones.When too fades, he feels the need to constantly creeping into narrow crevices and rub on hard surfaces.It helps him to lose the old skin - it slazit with reptiles, starting from the head.
Wintering snake, its habits and keeping in captivity
Before the onset of cold weather the snake begins to fall into a stupor.Previously she finds himself secluded shelter and settles in it.Snakes hibernate singly, sometimes collectively.Hibernation begins rather late - in late October and November.The first weak frosts can not in any way damage the uzhu.He wakes up early - at the end of March, even in the coldest regions can be seen awakened reptiles.This snake is non-aggressive.Seeing the man most often flees.Being caught, first actively protected (hissing izvorachivayas and emitting a foul odor from special glands), and then pretending to be dead.In captivity snakes quite easily tamed and well tolerated in the maintenance of the terrarium.If you set a small pond, and there are several shelters, pour a mixture of gravel soil, earth and peat moss, then certainly live long enough.
