Snakes

• Most popular pet snake is the king. Most common pet name for same is Elvis.
• The western diamondback rattlesnake can inject enough venom in one bite to kill 45 people.
• Some of the genuine old-time fiddlers put rattlesnake rattles in their violins to keep out insects. Italian violinists of 400 years ago kept toads in their instruments for the same reason.
• The deadliest snake is the King Cobra. It's big, too...can grow up to 18 feet long.
• The milk snake absolutely won't drink milk.
• A white python comes along maybe once in every 1,000 years. The London Zoo paid $14,000 for one back in the '50s.
• Cleopatra was killed by an Egyptian Cobra, not an asp. No asps lived in Cleopatra's Egypt.
• A rattlesnake can sense the heat of a human hand about 12 inches away.
• When two rattlesnakes fight, they never bite each other. Gentleman's agreement?
• Every year at the Texas Rattlesnake Roundup in Sweetwater, TX, they catch seven to eight tons of rattlesnakes!

Facts about boa constrictors and pythons.