{"id":52268,"date":"2013-11-01T17:16:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T16:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=52268"},"modified":"2024-06-17T14:23:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T13:23:32","slug":"grass-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/grass-snake\/","title":{"rendered":"Grass Snake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Natrix natrixSquamata -Natricidae<\/p>\n

I will never stress enough that not all snakes are dangerous. This one is perfectly harmless; It can live up to 25 to 28 years of age and lives close to water dams and swamps where it finds small fish, frogs and small mammals.
\nI found this one on the 27th of october o close to my lake in the south of France; it is unusual to see one that late in the season.<\/p>\n

La Couleuvre \u00e0 collier:L’esp\u00e8ce n’\u00e9tant pas pas venimeuse elle est inoffensive pour l’Homme.Ovipare, cette couleuvre a une esp\u00e9rance de vie d’environ 25 \u00e0 28 ans. Elle vit dans les proches environs des points d’eau o\u00f9 elle trouve des petites poissons, des batraciens et des petits mammif\u00e8res pour s’alimenter. J’ai rencontr\u00e9 celle-ci le 27 octobre et comme je la d\u00e9place pour faire des photos,elle fait la morte et tire m\u00eame la langue pour bien me convaincre!<\/p>\n

I was taking some pictures when I heard the snake moving near my feet;It had just found food considering its enlarged abdomen.
\nAs I moved it gently to an open space to take photos, it played dead and pulleds its tong out to convince me!<\/p>\n

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Natrix natrix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Natrix natrix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Natrix natrix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Je la laisse faire, elle semble finalement n’avoir pas si peur et se redresse,<\/p>\n

I let it be and it rightens itself slowy,<\/p>\n

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Natrix natrix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

puis sort sa langue pour absorber les mol\u00e9cules de l’odeur que j’\u00e9mets pour identifier le danger:<\/p>\n

pulling its tong out to get an idea of what kind of danger I represent:<\/p>\n

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Natrix natrix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pourquoi avons-nous une peur si fondamentale des serpents? Il semble que des chercheurs, apr\u00e8s avoir exp\u00e9riment\u00e9 sur des singes, soient arriv\u00e9s trouver la r\u00e9ponse…Kerry Sheridan, dans son article paru il y a quelques heures dans phys.org, explique que les primates ont d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 cette peur ancestrale des serpents depuis des dizaines de millions d’ann\u00e9es. Certains neurones, situ\u00e9s dans une partie du cerveau connue sous le nom depulvinar, sont particuli\u00e8rement impliqu\u00e9s dans l’attention visuelle et le traitement des images mena\u00e7antes. Apercevoir quelque chose qui rampe d\u00e9clenche une alerte dans le cerveau beaucoup plus rapide que la vue de visages, de mains ou de formes quelconques. “Les serpents sont largement responsables de l’\u00e9volution des primates. C’est la vision qui s\u00e9pare principalement les primates des autres animaux. Un grand nombre des structures de notre cerveau est attribu\u00e9 \u00e0 la vision”, dit Lynne Isbell, professeur d\u2019anthropologie et auteur d’un livre \u00e0 ce sujet paru en 2009.<\/p>\n

To read about why our brain reacts so fast to the view of nakes and triggers such fear read this interesting post: Brain has specific radar for snakes.<\/p>\n

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Natrix natrix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Natrix natrix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Original post here: http:\/\/1000-pattes.blogspot.fr\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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