How do rattle snakes communicate?
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I always thought it was through smell and their rattles.
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Sorry David, having given you a facetious answer on your "twin" question, I though I should give a more serious one here :\n\nIt's possible that it's for helping in communicating with other lynxes. Ears are used a lot in felines for communicating mood (just have a look at a cat when its angry, scared, confused, happy, the ears give the game away).\n\nSo if ears are used in communicating, then having black tips to them would highlight the message.\n\nPS I don't KNOW this, I'm not a zoologist, just a guess.
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Yes, they can talk.  Not like humans, but they have a rather sophisticated way of communicating which usually includes vocalizations and body language.
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i find rattle snakes work exellantly, but the garder snake tend to wiggle too mcuh when they go down.  just dont try taking any water snakes into the pool with you.  and if your really hungry, try a boa
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They hear what people say, and then tell their master the exact words.\nSometimes, when the master's hearing is too severely damaged, the dog would just talk to their master with hand/body signal.
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Reptiles possess scaly skin to conserve moisture. They can control their body temperature by gaining or losing heat from surroundings. By using external heat, they do not need as much energy as the birds and mammals. Hence they need less food and breathe at a lower rate, which help them to conserve moisture.
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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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Courtship, mating and reproduction : Like all snakes and lizards, male sea snakes have two penises. They are called hemipenes, but each is an autonomous independently functioning penis and only one is used during mating. Mating takes place for long periods and sea snakes must surface for air during that time. The female controls breathing and as she swims to the surface the male is pulled along attached via the hemipenis. At the surface the male needs to gulp for air or he has to wait til the next time the female comes up the the surface to breathe. Males are unable to disengage until mating is finished. \n\nIn species where courtship has been studied, eg olive and turtlehead sea snakes, one or more males follow the female very closely and occasionally prod the head and neck of females. \n\nAll sea snakes except the latidcaudids give birth to live young after gestation periods that range from four to eleven months, depending on the species. Most species reproduce every year. The timing of the reproductive cycle varies enomously between species and also differs between geographical locations for the same species. \n\nYoung are born underwater and must be independent immediately to swim to the surface to breathe. There is no parental care. In some species look quite different to the adults eg juvenile olive sea snake are strongly banded while the adults are not.
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When snakes are afraid, they'll strike.\n\nSnakes are afraid of sudden movements... so they are likely to strike.\n\nAlso, snakes will go for the groin (like women) so be careful!\n\nJust try to avoide them.  If you need one out of some place, use a big branch, pref with lots of branches comming down to one place where you hold.  Put it by the snake and hope he crawls into it.  Then move him some place safe.\n\nMost poisonous snakes are poisoness with colored bands... just as an aside.
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All snakes and lizards have paired copulatory organs called "hemipenes".  These are not fleshy, but rather sacklike and their surface has spines and tubercles that differ from one species to the other, and a longitudinal groove through which the sperm flows during copulation. \nAnd only one of the hemipenes goes into the female cloaca during copulation. Lizards have paired oviducts and a cloaca, not paired vaginas.
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Stroking pu$$y with my snake. It's ok, Sid can't bite Tiddles he just spits, sometimes he won't go near because Tiddle's breath stinks of haddock.
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"First the snake locates the head. All snakes eat their prey headfirst, it makes the swallowing of limbs so much easier. There are occasions where a snake will go tail first, but they are hardly normal.  \n\nAfter locating the head, the cornsnake then begins the process of swallowing. First it opens it's jaw and takes the animal into it's mouth. As this happens, the jaw will continue to expand around the animal until it has eventually covered the entire creature. Once the basics are done and the mouse has started to enter the snake's mouth, it then alternately moves it's jaws forward and to the sides. The snake actually moves one mandible at a time.  \n\nAll of the above are also assisted by powerful jaw and throat muscles, little teeth on the roof of the mouth and glands that secrete salivary juices which moisten the intended food item."\n\n"In a typical lizard we can see the loss of the Jugal bone which frees up the quadrate and allows for a wider swing of the jaw (thus allowing the lizard to swallow larger food items). In snakes, the jugal and the upper temporal has been lost. Note also how the mandibles are no longer connected to each other and can actually move freely of one another (a condition known as: mandibular liberation). The mandibles are only connected through a ligament that stretches between the distal end of each mandible. Along with that, each mandible has a joint midway down it which allows it to bow outwards. By having a stretchy lower jaw rather than a rigid one, snakes are capable of expanding their jaws to accomodate large prey."
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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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Your basic Diamondback Rattler and Pygmie Rattler live in that area as well as Coral Snakes. These account for probably about 1% of the snake population. These are all very poisonous.  However.. it is likely you have found some eggs from a Blacksnake (very common) or a garter snake (very common) or Oak Snake or Eastern King Snake ... or any of a number of other really good snakes to have around to help control the rodent population.  I bet you could look for the eggs on the web (a picture) and narrow it down. 99% chance these are NOT poisonous snakes.
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ants navigate and communicate largely by sense of smell.  they leave behind chemical markers that signify certain things - "food this way" or "danger" or whatever.  (this can be tested by you!  if you find an ant trail, put down a piece of paper and the ants will be lost!  eventually they'll make a new trail across the paper - which you can then move and manipulate where they go.)  \n\nthe antennae on their heads are their smell organs - so when they meet, the two ants communicate by smelling each other - kinda like dogs.
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Nope.  No sound.  Soundwaves, yes.  Without the diaphram of the eardrum vibrating there is no such thing as sound.  Of course woodland creatures would hear it, most of them have eardrums too. (as oppose to snakes) Sound does not exist on it's own, it does indeed need a reciever to actually be considered sound.  So, taking away all creatures with an ear as a reciever... the tree will only make soundwaves.
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Do you mean a cicada?  The adults live in trees. And they can hum really loudly:\n\n"Question: How do they make that noise?\nAnswer: Only the males make that noise (although some females are capable of making sounds). They have drum like membranes on their abdomen that vibrate very quickly, creating the creepy tones. Every species of cicada has a unique call. The frequency and tone of their calls is related to the temperature, and the time of day."