Snakes Of The Rainforest Floor

Reptiles of the rainforest floor july 22 2007 reptiles.

Snakes of the rainforest floor. The amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest on planet earth and home to most amazing creatures such as anaconda electric eel black caiman dart frog and jaguar. Coral snakes vary widely in their behavior but most are very elusive fossorial snakes which spend the vast majority of their time buried beneath the ground or in the leaf litter of a rainforest floor coming to the surface only when it rains or during breeding season. Some species like micrurus surinamensis are almost entirely aquatic and spend most of their lives in slow moving bodies of. Younger smaller snakes are equally comfortable in trees or on the ground while larger more massive snakes prefer the rainforest floor.

Mambas coral snakes cobras and vipers are all venomous rainforest snakes. These snakes inject their venom into their prey using very sharp fangs. In many cases these snakes can be dangerous. Coral snakes vary widely in their behavior but most are very elusive fossorial burrowing snakes which spend most of their time buried beneath the ground or in the leaf litter of a rainforest floor coming to the surface only when it rains or during breeding season.

Best known of forest snakes are the giant constrictors pythons of the old world and australasia and boas of new world but many of these are arboreal aquatic or relatively small. The amazon river basin and rainforest of amazonia is also home to world s biggest snake the green anaconda guyana blind snake toadheaded pitviper green racer and yararanata pit. The snakes can stay underwater up to 30 minutes and are excellent swimmers.