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[Original] The white-lipped snake in the green corridor, do you know this kind of bearded snake?

2022-02-05 / 938 Read

When someone sees this snake for the first time, they are amazed by the long white beard beside its cheek, which when it swims fast, looks like a car The car racing on the track, the pull flowers on both sides of the body bring a strong visual impact, this is the white-lipped snake living in the green corridor. Let the editor introduce it to you in detail below~

1. Basic information
【中Literary name] White-lipped snake
【Kingdom】Animal Kingdom
【Domain】Chordates
【Subphylum】Vertebrate subphylum
【Class】Reptiles
【Subclass】 Diporia
【Order】Squamata
【Suborder】Snaphidae
【Family】Viperidae
【Species】White-lipped Viper
【Distribution area】Distributed in Vietnam Central region
【Animal type】Cold-blooded
II. Appearance characteristics
White-lipped snake, as its name suggests, has a broad white edge on its upper lip, which seems to be a long mouth A white beard with two white and yellow stripes on the head and red dots covering the body. The white-lipped swimming snake is not very large, and the adult snake can grow up to 80 cm in length.

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III. Geographical distribution
The white-lipped snake mainly lives in Vietnam, which is known as the green corridor The central region, where there are vast evergreen moist forests and ecologically valuable plain rivers.
IV. Living habits
White-lipped snakes usually live near streams, and frogs and some small animals are their main food. Like most snakes, the body temperature of the white-lipped swimming snake will change with the temperature of the surrounding environment. When the temperature outside decreases, their metabolism will decrease, and their activity will also decrease. When the temperature drops to a certain level, they will not even eat or drink, sleep in the hole, and use this form of hibernation to spend the long and cold winter.
20~30℃ is the most suitable temperature for them to live; when the temperature is around 25~32℃, their nesting activities will be more frequent; when the temperature rises above 33℃, they will start looking for a shady place Or soak in a pool or a ditch to enjoy the coolness. In early spring, white-lipped swimming snakes like to bask in the sun at noon; after the heavy rain in summer, they will come out of their nests to breathe, especially at night, they are almost out of their nests.

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V. Protection level
The white-lipped snake has not been hunted too much, and the natural environment has no effect on it. There is not much harm, and the number has not decreased, and the current endangered level is not threatened.
Through the introduction of the editor, you must know more about the white-lipped snake. If you want to know more interesting content, please continue to pay attention~