Do garden snakes bite?
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Yes they bite.. when i was a kid i did the same thing, and got bit allot.. you do not want them in the house.. trust me, they will escape.. you don't want them in your bed do you ?
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They could be very dangerous or even fatal, but not because of the physical injury caused by the bite (which is usually not large). Many bats are carriers of rabies and other diseases and parasites. While they're not aggressive, an animal affected by rabies loses nervous coordination and will often be found on the floor during the day. People see the little thing and figure they can "help it", and may get bitten. So please never approach a bat that you see in these circumstances (at least not with your naked hand)!\n \nThe South American vampire bats (genera Desmodus and Diaemus) can weaken cattle and other animals that they feed upon (mostly mammals in the case of Desmodus, and mostly birdds for Diaemus), and their victims are thus vulnerable to other predators, diseases, etc.\n\nPS I left you some comments in your question about mudskippers that might be useful :-)
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Even if they lose sight of a prey they struck, rattlesnakes can still track them.  So that way, they don't have to hold onto their prey while it slowly dies.  If they did, they'd be at risk of injury by a flailing mouse or whatever.  Rattlesnakes have been shown to be able to tell the difference between the trails of unstruck rats and struck rats, opting for the envenomated rat.
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No, it's not poisonous. The rattle is formed by pieces of keratin (the same horny substance that forms our nails and the snake's scales). The rattlesnake does not have a rattle when it is born, but it has a terminal keratinized "knob" in the tail. When it sheds its skin for the first time, a new bulbous segment is added to this "knob" so that the old one is held by the new (2º) element, which has a shape that fits inside the first. The segments are loosely fitted and therefore the structure rattles when the snake shakes the tip of the tail. With successive molts, new segments are added to the rattle, but usually the older pieces (the ones closer to the tip of the rattle) get damaged and lost. An adult rattlesnake rarely has more than 8-10 segments (captive individuals usually have much longer rattles, because they're not damaged by natural factors). That's the reason why the nº of segments in a rattle cannot be used to estimate the age of the animal.\n\nHowever, any snake that has a rattle is indeed poisonous. The rattle is a warning from the snake; they don't prey on people but they will defend themselves.
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Is this it?\n\nhttp://www.southalley.com/dsnakes/scarlet1.JPG\n\nIt's a Florida Scarlet snake and it is nonvenomous.
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Their bite may irritate a spot on your skin, but they are not poisonous- as long as you are referring to the true house spider Tegenaria gigantea/domestica.  So the place it bites may swell and itch or be sore and irritated, but nothing more than that.
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Children (as well as adults) should be advised never to pick up a snake unless they are with someone who can positively identify one kind from another. Or unless they live in Maine or Alaska, which have no venomous snakes.
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They can move faster than snakes. When a venomous snake is trying to bite the mongoose, the mongoose is fast enough to avoid the bite many times. When the snake gets too tired, the mongoose eats the snake.\n\nContrary to popular belief, the mongoose is NOT immune to snake venom.
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Most wall lizards are Geckos.  The largest of these normally encountered would be the Tokay Gecko of Southeast Asia/Malaysia.  \n\nTokay Geckos can definitely bite if they feel threatened, but they won't deliberately attack humans it's purely defensive.  Even if they do bite, it doesn't really do much damage.  The biggest concern is that the lizard will break off several of his teeth in the process, and then the poor lizard is prone to infections and finds it harder to hunt.\n\nAll of these lizards are primarily insectivorous, and thus pretty beneficial to have around.  In many cases, their favourite food is cockroaches.  \n\nI was so excited when my hotel room in Mexico had little geckos on the walls.  It was so cool!  Sadly, we don't get many lizards up here in Canada.
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Mongoose, other snakes, predatory birds, some lizards and even some species of trapdoor spiders have been known to catch and eat small snakes\n\n(Thanks tbech7430!!)
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Where you live will help people answer your question.\n\nLink below loads slowly but is worth the wait.  In Northeast US, garter snakes and black rat snakes are starting to show up - they are beneficial - they eat rodents.\n\nWhere I live - timber rattlers and copperheads are the only two poisonous snakes.  These snakes would rather escape than confront, so in hot weather, I just pay attention to where I put my hands and feet, so I don't disturb them.
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the snakes are fed and handled constanly so they normaly feel no threat, A snake will only use it's precious venom when neccesary, whether it having to eat or the threat of another animal. Sometimes these christian handlers are bit and they suffer the same pain as any other human.
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Snakes are true carnivorous because they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
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Roaches, Snakes most of all. I also fear dogs that I don't know or don't know me. When I was younger around 7 or 8 my sister and I was walking when we were and out of no where came this dog out of no where and bit her on the leg. She had to have around 100 stitches inside and out, and she still has the scar of it to this day.
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We were on a border watch in Arizona in 1990. I watched a Marine get his leg knocked out from under him from a rattlesnake strike. The fangs didn't penetrate all the way through his boot, but you could definitely see the holes where the snake had struck. He said it felt like someone had punched his ankle hard. Surprised us all.\n\nAlot of outdoors catalogs sell snake boots and chaps for walking in snake country. They are very effective and don't cost a hell of alot. Check these out:
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Keep the grass, weeds, brush trimmed very close to the ground. Snakes prefer cover & shade.
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I don't know about poisonous, but all reptiles can carry bacteria on their skin that can be harmful, especially to children.  That is why washing hands after touching your reptile is very important.