Brown tree snake

Nag is a snake in “Rikki-tikki-tavi” and the author is “Rudyard Kipling”. Nag is a big black hooded cobra. He has a circle symbol on his hood. Nag is the enemy of Rikki-tikki. Nag also has a wife “Nagana”. Nag in the story is big, creepy, and greedy. Nag is a very big black cobra. In the story it said “Then inch by inch out of the grass rose up the head and spread hood of Nag, the big black cobra, and he was five feet long from tongue to tail” (8). So in the story it said that he was five…

16-foot Burmese python snake skin to a meeting to prove how much of a threat the pythons are! Clearly, the Burmese pythons are drawing hunters to the everglades. According to Andrew Ng in his 2013 article, “To address the problem, the state's Fish and Wildlife Commission is sponsoring its first-ever python Challenge.” This means many hunters are coming to Florida for the thrill of the hunt. This is important because the extra hunters could alleviate the over-populated snake problem as well…

against the Cottonmouth snake. As he attempts to kill the snake with his car, the speaker witnesses it slithering into a ditch. The carrier’s hatred is reciprocated as the snake hisses upon locating the carrier. The violent nature of the carrier is exemplified as he shoots the snake twice despite the fact that the snake most likely died within the first shot. Within the sestet, the speaker carefully observes the snake. Described to be “long and evil” (Line 10), the snake is portrayed in a…

about China and her culture. She told me that I was a snake, and I, naive at the time, didn’t understand why. She explained to me that the zodiac system in China, shengxiao, was a running cycle of twelve years. The year that I was born in, 2001, just happened to be the year of the snake. I thought that snakes were scary and ruthless: not a great representation of who I am. A prime example is the king cobra. It’s the longest venomous snake known today, with an astonishing length of…

When Life Slithers Back Danielle Evans’s fictional story, “Snakes,” portrays the miserable childhood of the narrator when she visits her maternal grandmother. The narrator became the victim of racial discrimination from her own grandmother which led to a painful childhood experience. Throughout the story, the narrator seems to be quite attached to ancient tradition, like the mythological vision of Burmese python, talismans as an ultimate cure of evil, and other ritual actions performed…

Imagine a world overrun with pythons. The burmese python is invading the Everglades. The snakes were brought by people. Annihilated animal’s species and their old way of life. The burmese python has lastly changed forever an ecosystem which on its own didn’t have the best legs to stand on. Explore how the Burmese python has changed the Everglades Firstly, the Burmese pythons were brought here by people. The burmese python is native to South asia can grow to 23 feet max and concluding brief…

One hot, sunny day in the African savannah, Cheetah, Elephant, Monkey, and Snake heard a bunch of animals bullying a bunch of spiders. The animals were saying to the spiders that they didn’t have any abilities. The spiders felt sad. They wished that they were not even born! Cheetah, Monkey, Elephant, and Snake were feeling sad about the spiders. Cheetah informed, “Let's go to the mysterious village." Elephant asked, “Why?" Cheetah said, “We are going to get the poisonous medicine for the…

Snakes: A misunderstood Villain Sssssssssssssssss…. Doesn’t this sound make you cringe? The twisting and contorting body of the lengthy creature as it stalks its unknowing prey in the tall grass. In a split second the serpent pierces its prey with its venomous fangs, injecting paralyzing venom. Its prey can only sits with this poison coursing through its veins. It is forced to watch as it is devoured still breathing and alive. Is this act so wrong? I contend that it is not. A creature’s…

What makes an animal good? Is it their benefit to the ecosystem, their evolved skills, or how nice they are to look at? In all three categories the victor may be surprising. Snakes. Snakes are amazing, talented, and gorgeous. Their ecologic benefits are rooted in their prey, as I’m sure you know, snakes eat mice and rats. If snakes were less talented they wouldn’t be able to catch the rats, or even the harmful insects they keep at bay. Then the prey would multiply and eat until its food source…

When I think of snakes I think of something powerful, sneaky, and evil. Every since I got exposed to Medusa on the cartoon show “The Powerpuff Girls” They portrayed her as being this powerful, evil, and sneaky lady and made the snakes rooted in her head represent that as they go crazy and every since then it stuck with me. So when I first saw the image of Medusa by Caravaggio I saw all the snakes on her hair going in different patterns just as I would see on the show. I automatically saw what…