### animal | vertebrate | reptile | snake:

Sea snake
* All sea snakes are fatally venomous and that is how they catch their food
* Many sea snakes have very toxic venoms, but almost never bite, even when handled roughly.
* Most sea snakes are able to breathe through their skin
  - inoffensive and are only dangerous if they are provoked
  - feed on fish, fish eggs and eels
* Most sea snakes have a paddle like tail, which they use to propel themselves through the water
  - behaviour
  - occupy habitats
* Some sea snakes have penises.
  * are found in warm coastal waters from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific. They live in the tropical and warm regions, but not in the Atlantic Ocean, or the North American coast above the Gulf of California.
* anticipate tropical cyclone.
* appear to be active both day and night.
* are air breathers probably descended from a family of Australian land snakes
  - air-breathing animals
  - also victims of overexploitation
  - among the most common of all venomous snakes, and their bites can be fatal to humans
  - common visitors to mangrove forests as are terrestrial snakes
  - curious creatures and are generally nonaggressive
  - distant relatives of cobras that have adapted to life in the ocean
  - fairly common in tropical waters and are encountered by many divers
  - front-fanged and highly venomous
  - highly venomous, but are said to have poorly developed biting apparatus
  - one of the most venomous snakes on the planet
  - pretty rare in Hawaii
  - regarded as a delicacy in the Orient
  - ten times more deadly than a cobra
* can hold their breath for fairly long periods
  - swallow a fish that is more than twice the diameter of their neck
* eat fish, catching prey with a sideways strike of the head.
* have a flattened, rudder-like tail that they use for propulsion and steering
  - deadlier venom, and rattlesnakes have weaker venom
  - nostril valves that prevent air entering the lung while underwater
  - nostrils
* live in all tropical waters except the Atlantic.
* mate in water and give birth to live young.
+ Sea snake, Description: Elapidae
  * Most sea snakes are able to breathe through their skin. This is unusual for reptiles, because their skin is normally thick and scaly. The venomous reptiles of the western hemisphere'. Comstock, Ithaca and London.

Small snake
* can be just as deadly as big snakes.
* eat bugs and frogs.

Smaller snake
* Many smaller snakes can thrive quite nicely in a ventilated plastic shoe or sweater box.
* prey on small lizards.
* tend to wait until the predator is closer to begin rattling, as do pregnant females.

Smooth snake
* Some smooth snakes eat insects.
* can move past each other very easily.

Tentacle snake
* Most tentacle snakes possess mild venom
* Most tentacle snakes use prehensile tails

Tiger snake
* Most tiger snakes enter burrows
  - occur in habitats
* are the only species of snake in Australia that attack unprovoked.
  - most habitats in Tasmania

### animal | vertebrate | reptile | snake:

Venomous snake
* Most venomous snakes eat mice
  - have fangs
  - replace their fangs every few weeks
* Some venomous snakes are classified in families
  - taxonomic families
  - have reputations
  - possess fangs
* are a danger to the young
  - dangerous to have around
  - too distantly related to harmless snakes to be genetically compatible
  - venomous animals
* can be dangerous even after they are dead
  - sometimes bite without injecting venom
  - vertical pupils and a pit on either side of the face
* search for prey.
* secrete a poison that paralyzes or kills and starts digestion of the prey.