What is a viper? Detailed answer

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What is a viper?

The viper is one of the varieties of snakes. It belongs to a family of snakes called vipers (viper snakes), which includes some of the most venomous snakes on earth. The same group of snakes includes the rattlesnake, the moccasin water snake, the copperhead, the South American bushmaster, the common European viper, and the African horned viper.

The snake that killed Cleopatra was most likely a horned African viper. The poison of these snakes destroys the blood vessels, and the victim dies from hemorrhage. All vipers have a thick body and a flat triangular head. Their poisonous teeth located in the upper jaw are actually very long. Inside these teeth there is a channel connected to the poison glands located in the cavities behind the eyes. During a snake bite, the chewing muscles contract and the venom is squirted through the teeth into the open wound.

A medium-sized snake can inject about half a teaspoon of poison into the victim's body at a time! It is useless to pull out teeth from such snakes, because new ones always grow in their place! Viper snakes are divided into two families: true vipers, which are found only in Europe and in some parts of Africa, and spotted pit snakes, which are similar in many structural features to viper snakes, living in the Western Hemisphere and somewhere in Asia.

The most poisonous viper is found in India, its length reaches 1,5 m, but, generally speaking, vipers attack a person only when they are disturbed or prevented from hunting. Still, it's best to stay away from them!

Author: Likum A.

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How many varieties of apples are there in the world?

There are enough different varieties of apples in the world to satisfy any, even the most picky taste. There are more than XNUMX of them in England alone. If you look at the whole world, then there will be several times more of them. It is known that the apple was one of the first fruits that people began to grow themselves.

The homeland of apples, apparently, southeastern Europe and western Asia. In any case, we know that in Europe various varieties of them were grown already two thousand years ago.

The inhabitants of ancient Rome served at least seven varieties of this fruit. Where did such a variety of varieties come from today? At all times, gardeners who grew apple trees in their gardens carried out many experiments with them, trying to get new varieties that were tastier, more prolific, frost-resistant compared to the previous ones.

The most widely used method for obtaining new varieties is as follows. A shoot or bud cut from a tree of one species is planted ("grafted") on a young apple tree of another. In this case, the properties of the resulting plant are a mixture of the advantages and disadvantages of the "parent" varieties. Another method is called "cross-pollination". It lies in the fact that the flowers of apple trees of one variety are pollinated with pollen taken from trees of another.

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