Identifying a venemous from a non-venemous snake?

Question

ok so i wanted to know a way to identify a venemous snake from a nonvenemouse one...

but a way to be very sure with no exeptions... if there is one of course

and maybe someone could also answere another question

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AlQDZ5F7KyldL7sf_PsA3Njsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20080722165937AAyoMZN

this is the link i hope it works

Answer 1

There is no 100% accurate way of telling if a snake is venomous or not, except to know which species you are looking at. Not all venomous snakes have diamond-shaped heads or heat pits or rattles and so on. There is huge variation by family and species. The best thing to do if you're not sure if a snake is venomous or not is to leave it alone. And remember that even non-venomous snakes can give a painful bite.

Answer 2

this is the links

http://www.wikihow.com/Identify-a-Venomo...

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article...

Answer 3

You'll never get a method that is "very sure with no exceptions" unless you learn to identify every snake species. If in doubt, leave it alone! If you tell us which country you're in we might be able to help more.

Stewart

http://www.ReptilesDownUnder.com

Answer 4

The only way is to be able to identify all the venomous snakes in the area. There is no single rule. In the U.S. you can tell the crotalids (rattlers, copperheads, moccasins) by the presence of their heat-sensing labial pits -- if you want to get that close. While the red-yellow and red-black rhyme will hold for the U.S. coral snakes, it will get you in trouble if you try to apply it in Latin America. The best rule is to consider any snake venomous until you are sure that it isn't.

Answer 5

identifying a venomous and non-venomous snake is not an exact science since many non-venomous snakes mimic the looks of venomous snakes.  But here goes. A venomous snake usually has a diamond shaped head, two fangs in the upper jaw, a pit viper has a pit below the eye to detect infrared rays, heat.  A pit viper the rattlesnake will have rattles on the end of the tail but you need to see  them because some non-venomous will move their tails against leaves to sound like rattling.  A copper head is a pit viper, has the pit, and usually the markings on a mature copper head are hour glass shaped. The cotton mouth another pit viper is black and when it opens it mouth it is all white.  The last poisonous snake in the United States is the coral and is related to the cobra and has a banding pattern of yellow black yellow red yellow black yellow red. Remember black between yellow can kill a fellow.  The milk snake mimics the pattern of the coral but the pattern is not the same. There are other poisonous snakes around the world but can be much harder to identify.

As far as poisonous frogs the poison is excrete on the skin and coming in contact with the skin of the frog allows the poison to absorb into the skin and blood system and thus can be deadly

Answer 6

Can't really help your there except that I was taught if "yellow touches black your OK Jack" and if  "red touches yellow your a dead fellow."

Answer 7

Pet peeve alert: it irks me when people refer to venomous snakes having "diamond shaped heads" because they don't... pit vipers have triangular or heart shaped heads that stand out boldly from their neck due to the location of the venom glands... please see image: http://www.chrisdixonstudios.com/cdsgall... compare this to the head and neck of a nonvenomous red rat snake: http://www.floridasnakes.net/corn-snake....

Also, pit vipers have what I refer to as an "eyebrow scale", not to mention the heat pits between the eyes and nostrils: http://mrskingsbioweb.com/diamondback%20... again, compare to another nonvenomous... hmm... let's see if I can find the same angle on a..... rough green snake: http://www.carolinanature.com/herps/rgre...

Also, pit vipers have elliptical pupils (cat's eyes) BUT DO NOT RELY ON THIS!!! In low light situations, the pupil will be dilated and will be difficult to tell whether it is elliptical or not, also, some vipers have dark irises making it harder to distinguish the pupil.

I'm assuming you're in North America, so you only have to worry about one elapid... Coral snakes do not fit ANY of these criteria... round pupil... ovalish head, no eyebrow scale or heat pit... but again, assuming you're in North America, coral snakes ALWAYS have a black nose and red touching yellow (don't bother with nursery rhymes... think traffic lights... yellow touches red and you stop.) This is a coral snake: http://iownsnakes.com/_admin/Editor/asse... (keep in mind, there are color and pattern variations... this is also a coral snake: http://www.pitt.edu/~mcs2/herp/snake.pic... and I can't find an image of one resembling one in a family friend's collection... black nose, yellow band, black band, red body one more yellow band and another black band and that was it...) the two major coral snake mimics are scarlet king snakes and scarlet snakes... both have red noses and red touches black... also scarlet snakes don't have true bands... just "saddles" of color. Scarlet king snake: http://www.stetson.edu/~pmay/quiz/images... and scarlet snake: http://www.kentuckysnakes.org/snakes/sca...

To narrow this down further, you should probably get a field guide to your local snakes or find a good website for identification (try a search on "<your state> snake identification").

Good luck, and remember, these rules only apply in North America.