Why are there no snakes in the Bahama islands?
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Either there were predators in the Bahama islands and they ate off all the snakes or there weren't any snakes in the island to begin with.
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Maybe they ate unicorns and heffalumps and murmaids and that's why there aren't any now. :o)\n\nIn my opinion, the whole story is a parable, so it's pointless to ask about such details.
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Are you kidding me? OF COURSE MERMAIDS EXIST! Actually if you want to be convinced or are willing to be, it should be quite an easy concept to understand. OK, people evolved over the years into what we are to day but originally we came from the seas. So our closest relatives are the mermpeople. They are almost extinct because of things like ocean pollution and they are nocturnal so they live in the deepest darkest reaches of the ocean where our human eyes are unable to see. People say, but if they exist why have i never seen one? Answer me this, if you were a mermaid/merman who everyone was dying to catch in a net and take to lab would you want anybody to see you?
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I don't think I could be lowered into a tub of snakes. Just the thought of them slipping and sliding into oriffices where they do NOT belong just freaks me out!! Please please don't make me sleep with a snake!! *sigh*
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One thing these few snake-less parts of the world have in common is that they are surrounded by water.  Snakes are found in deserts, grasslands, forests, mountains, and even oceans virtually everywhere around the world. Everywhere except Ireland, New Zealand, Iceland, Greenland, and Antarctica, that is. \nThere are no snakes in Ireland for the simple reason that they can't get there.
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They did find a creature recently, in Indonesia though. Don't know anything about one in Brazil.\n\nhttp://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=creature+indonesia&c=
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Just that I am terrified  of them ,and it is a cold blooded reptile. Most change colors of the surface they are on. Good things about them are..they help control a lot of the insects that are harmful to man such as misquitoes, flys ect. there is only one known poisiones in the U.S. that is the Gilla Monster found in the deserts of the southwest USA. The rest you can play with and maybe get a painful bite.
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not form The Bahamas but I have lived in The Bahamas for about 5 years now. WHy?
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Actually there are dragons all over myths and cultures all over the world.  Almost every culture has some sort of serpentine or dragon-like creature in it; Chinese, Japanese, Native American, Aztec, Mayan, etc.  In fact, the idea of a serpentine creature that has various powers such as the power to fly, breathe fire, live under the ocean, and such is so wide spread that some consider it proof that dragons once existed.  Although there has been no concrete physical evidence to prove their existence, the wide spread similarities among cultures with no communication with each other about dragons is, in my opinion, too common to be coincident.\n \nPersonally, I believe they did exist at one point.  Or maybe that's just cause dragons rock.  Idk.  However, I believe that this commonality among cultures about creatures also spread to vampires or some sort of blood-sucking creatures.
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The Timber Rattler is native (if rarely seen) in the Eastern US, and Massachusetts is included in its range, but because of the high population density of Mass. (and the long-time tendency of people to kill rattlesnakes around their houses) I imagine that you would be hard pressed to find any rattlesnakes there.\n\n**Update**\nI found a website with the timber rattler's range laid out on a map: http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/wildlife/endspec/tirafs.html
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In the Caribbean.  It's the birthplace of calypso and the steeldrum.  It's actually 2 islands.
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Cimpanzees and most of the higher primates have no tails.  It seems that somewhere along the evolutionary marathon tails got discarded, but it was relatively recently....
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New Zealand has no land based snakes either native or introduced.\n\nHowever due to New Zealand’s sub tropical climate it is visited by two species of sea snake.\n\nThe yellow-bellied sea snake. The most widely distributed sea-snake in the world. An infrequent visitor with just 35+ sightings around New Zealand shores since 1930. \n\nThe banded sea krait. Comes from India and South-east Asia through New Guinea, Australia and the Pacific Islands. Rarely seen here.\n\nBoth species of snakes are highly poisonous but, due to their size, can't penetrate human skin.
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They are arachnids, not crustaceans. Easy to find on the Indian Ocean shores. Dead animals eaters. Breath using gills, two sexed animals, egg layers, free swimmers. Outstanding feature: their blood is used as a reactive in a positive detection of human encephalitis.\n\nmore info: Barnes book of invertebrates
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Are you sure about the spelling?  Did you mean, instead, CAICOS ISLAND? if this is the correct island, see source below for the following:\n\nTurks and Caicos Islands\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\n(Redirected from Caicos Islands)\nJump to: navigation, search\nThe Turks and Caicos Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom consisting of two groups of tropical islands in the Caribbean. The two island groups are in the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast of the Bahamas, north of Haiti, and 575 miles from Miami, at 21°45′N 71°35′W. The territory is geographically part of the Bahamas, but not politically. The thirty islands total 166 square miles (430 km²), primarily of low, flat limestone with extensive marshes and mangrove swamps. The weather is usually sunny and relatively dry, but suffers frequent hurricanes. The islands have limited natural fresh water resources; private cisterns collect rainwater for drinking. The primary natural resources are spiny lobster conch and other shellfish. The United Nations Committee on Decolonization includes the Turks and Caicos Islands on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories.
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some animals were them on the outsied insects and lobsters.\ninvertabreas dont have a spine and some dont have any bones!
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There are a number of islands in northern Canada that appear to be unexplored-there are areas of the Amazon that may also be-there is no way of knowing if Amazonian aboriginals were once there.  There are a great many areas in the Himalayas that likely have never felt the foot of man.  Huge tracts of Antarctica that have not been visited.