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Show Family Ties Mean Nothing to Cold-Blooded Reptiles; Offspring Wriggle Through Life Alone A snake Is cold-blooded In every sense of the word. Family ties mean nothing. If the young hatch from eggs, they are left to come out all by themselves. If they are born in a litter of from 5 to 50 infinitesimal infinitesi-mal ribbons, they must wriggle through the school of experience alone. Most of the snake gentry hereabouts here-abouts are very handsomely patterned. pat-terned. The ringnecked snake, for example, is a shiny bluish black with bright yellow underparts and a brilliant bril-liant orange ring around his neck. The pilot black snake has a black velvet skin. The ribbon snake would make a pretty fancy ribbon, with his slender dark body and three long yellow stripes. The green snake is as green as grass and the queen snake, which is found only in water, has nice chocolate brown stripes. The storer's or red-bellied burrowing burrow-ing snake is very small and gray with bright red decorations. Each one has a personality of his own. Some are very mysterious and secretive, preferring to lead private pri-vate lives under stones, bark or logs. Others move freely in the open fields. Some are happiest around water or living In marshes and swamps. Tree climbers like the pilot black snake haunt the heavy woods. |
