What is the largest snake in the world? Detailed answer

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What is the largest snake in the world?

There are over 2000 different types of snakes. These creatures cause negative emotions in people, which has led to many erroneous stories about them. So, sometimes they say that there are huge, terrifying snakes from 18 to 21 meters long!

But, in truth, snakes never grow to such enormous sizes, although some are quite large. The first place in size is occupied by the royal python, which is only 10 meters long. (Measure your room, and then you will really imagine its size.) This animal lives in the Malay Peninsula, Burma, Indochina and the Philippine Islands.

The second largest snake is the anaconda living in the tropics of South America. It reaches 7 meters. It certainly isn't "short" either.

The next is the Indian python, he lives in India and on the Malay Peninsula and grows up to 6-7 meters. The African rock python is about the same length. The diamond python, found in Australia and New Guinea, grows up to 6,5 m.

Now we will talk about the snake, which for some reason many people consider the largest in the world. This is a boa constrictor, but most of them barely reach 5 meters. This disgusting creature lives in Southern Mexico, Central and South America.

The king cobra, another nasty member of the royal family, reaches a maximum length of 5,5 meters. But what are the longest snakes living in the United States? The largest of these is the eastern diamond rattlesnake. It grows up to 2 meters in length. All other snakes living in the USA hardly reach a maximum of 2 meters.

By the way, although the king python is the longest known snake, it is far from the heaviest. The shorter anaconda can weigh 160 kg, which is 45 kg more than the heaviest of the pythons.

The longest venomous snake is the king cobra and the heaviest is the diamond rattlesnake.

Author: Likum A.

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How many smells can we smell?

Compared to many animals, humans do not have a highly developed sense of smell. In fact, in the process of evolution, man's sense of smell became weaker and weaker, until he became almost entirely dependent on visual sensations. The dog, on the other hand, lives almost exclusively on its sense of smell.

Here are some comparisons that will show how far behind a person is in this regard. In our nose, a membrane of sensory cells responsible for smell occupies an area the size of a fingernail on both sides. In a dog, this membrane, if spread, will cover more than half of the body of the dog itself!

In the human brain, the cells that distinguish between odors occupy a twentieth part. In dogs, a third of the brain is connected with smell. A person's weak sense of smell, of course, is compensated by a higher development of other sense organs, abilities and capabilities. In our nose, odors are perceived by sensitive hairs on the olfactory membrane. These "antennas" do not just stick out of the membrane, but are immersed by their roots in a special mucous layer that covers it. This membrane is always wet. If it dries, we won't be able to smell anymore!

By the way, when we just breathe, the air stream does not pass by this membrane, and therefore we have to sniff - let air pass over the membrane - in order to smell. Before we can smell something, particles of the substance of which this "something" is composed must be dissolved in the mucous layer that covers the sensitive hairs that receive odors. These substances must either be volatile oils themselves (eg floral odors) or be carried by volatile oils (eg coffee odors).

There are five main types of odors that our sense of smell can pick up. The first is floral (violets, roses, and so on). The second is spicy (lemon, apple, etc.). The third is putrefactive (cheese, rotten eggs). Fourth - burnt (coffee, cocoa). And the fifth - essential (alcohol, camphor, etc.).

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