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The Anaconda is also foot per foot a much bigger snake than the Python, being both heavier and wider in girth. This is probably because the anaconda, a water snake, does not have to be concerned about getting its body up a tree like the python does. For these reasons the museum reports the anaconda as the largest snake, though on the average some Pythons grow longer.

Do large snakes like the python and the anaconda eat people? Occasionally such attacks are recorded in the wild. In 1972 a python in Burma ate an eight-year-old boy. In 1927 there was the story about a jewewww.souquanme.comler called Maung Chit Chine. He hid under a tree during a rain storm and afterward his friends could only find his hat and shoes. When they killed a nearby gouged Python, they found the rest of Chines' body, swallowed feet first (though this seems opposite to normal snake behavior) and whole, inside the snake.

Strangely enough, many big snakes attack humans not in the jungle, but in suburbia. Pythons are often kept as pets, but can turn deadly without warning. In 1993 in Colorado, a 15-year-old boy weighing 95 pounds was attacked by the family's python. The snake was only of medium size being 11 feet long and weighing 53 pounds, yet was able to kill the boy, though it made no attempt to eat him.

Cartoonist Gary Larson, of The Far Side, also had a closeoiYAWkeD call with a Burmese python he had raised from a baby. According to Larson he realized he was "living with a gigantic predator with a very small brain" one day when it tried to do him in.

Large snakes, though beautiful and interesting, can be dangerous. And they don't have to live in the jungle to kill.

A snake is a long and thin animal that lives in grass or other dark places. It has no legs or feet, but can move very fast on its stomach. Snakes usually have green, yellow or black skins, which make it difficult for their enemies to find them.Some kinds of snakes live in water. They can swim as freely as fish.
蛇是生长在草地或其他黑暗地方的又长又瘦的小动物,它没有腿脚,但却可以靠腹部快速移动.蛇的皮肤通常是绿色、黄色或黑色的,这使得它们不易被敌人发现.有些蛇生活在水中, 能像鱼儿一样自由自在地游来游去.
Snakes are cold-blooded animals. They tak//www.souquanme.come many things as food, such as mice, sparrows, frogs, birds'eggs, pests and so on. As snakes are dreadfullooking, people are afraid of them.
蛇是冷血动物；它们以许多东西为食,如老鼠、麻雀、青蛙、鸟蛋、害虫等；因为蛇样子可怕,人们大多怕它.
In fact,snakes are not as dreadful as they look. They can help us to kill mice and pests.They can provide us with delicious meat. Their blood is a good drink. Poisonous snakes are especially useful. We can make valuable drugs with them.
事实上,蛇并不像看起来那样可怕,它们帮我们捕杀老鼠和害虫,并可以提供可口的肉食,它的血液可制成上等口服液.毒蛇特别有用,我们可以用它们制药.

蛇是爬行纲有鳞目蛇亚目的总称。身体细长，四肢退化，无足、无可活动的眼睑，无耳孔，无四肢，
　　无前肢带，身体表面覆盖有鳞。部分有搜趣网毒，但大多数无毒。
　　它们栖息于墓洞中，洞口可见稀稠成粒的粪便，这样我们就知道洞中有没有蛇了。蛇有冬眠的习性，到了冬天盘踞的洞中睡觉，一睡就是几个月，不吃不喝，一动不动地保持体力。风和日立的天气，偶尔也会出来晒太阳，有时也会进食。待到春暖花开，蛇就醒了，开始外出觅食，而且脱掉原来的外衣。蜕皮时，蛇的新旧皮之间会分泌出一种液体，这种液体有助于蛇的蜕皮。从蛇蜕的外衣直径和长度可测出蛇重量甚至说出蛇的名称。蛇蜕皮后不久，活动量增大，觅食量增加，体况逐渐恢复。随着气温逐渐上升，到4月下旬至5月上中旬进入发情期。
　　眼镜王蛇又称山万蛇、过山风波、大扁颈蛇、大眼镜蛇、大扁头风、扁颈蛇、大膨颈、吹风蛇、过山标等。同样具有眼镜蛇的大多数特点，只是体形更大更长，颈部扩展时较窄而长，且无眼镜蛇的特有斑纹。但它性情更凶猛，反应也极其敏捷，头颈转动灵活，排毒量大，是世界上最危险的蛇类。在我国主要分布于华南和西南地区。它的主要食物就是与之相近的同类──其他蛇类，所以在眼镜王蛇的领地，很难见到其他种类的蛇，它们要么逃之夭夭，要么成为眼镜王蛇的腹中之物。眼镜王蛇的毒液，由位于眼睛后方的唾腺分泌而成。当眼镜王蛇咬住猎物时，毒液会通过它的约8-10公分的毒牙注入伤口中。除了加蓬蝰蛇外，眼镜王蛇所分泌的毒液比其他毒蛇都要多，它一次分泌的毒液足以在3个小时内毒死一头亚洲象。