| There are many people who often love the idea of | | | | popular type of pet snake, can live up to 40 years |
| keeping exotic pets, like reptiles in their homes. | | | | (consider that before getting one as a pet).2. Snakes |
| Lizards snakes and alligators are always in demand at | | | | and lizards flick their tongues in the air to capture |
| the pet stores. It is very important to have proper | | | | scent particles. They don't smell through their noses |
| reptile tanks, reptile caves and other reptile | | | | like you and I. Instead, the use their tongues to |
| accessories to put these reptiles into a set up that | | | | collect scent particles and then pass the particles |
| they deserve to be kept as a pet.The problem is | | | | over something called a Jacobson's organ to decipher |
| that often when people get tired of the up-keep of | | | | the air around them. This is partly how reptiles hunt |
| such pets they allow them to escape into the wild. | | | | for food.3. Certain types of snakes can go months |
| Once the get away, sometimes they do not come | | | | without eating. This is especially true of the big |
| back and if you have a male and female or a | | | | constrictors, such as the Anaconda and the |
| pregnant reptile which gets away, you can cause | | | | reticulated python. Snakes eat large meals (relative to |
| some real problems for the local eco-system. Thus it | | | | their body size), and they have much slower |
| very essential to go through the various reptile books | | | | metabolisms than we humans have. This partly |
| and understand the exact type of reptile foods and | | | | explains how they can go so long between meals.4. |
| reptile products available in the market to keep your | | | | Most of the world's snakes (nearly two-thirds) are |
| reptile friends in the most suited environments.I read | | | | non-venomous. Only about 500 snake species are |
| an article from Brandon R Cornett and found out | | | | venomous, and of those only 30 - 40 are considered |
| these interesting facts about reptiles that he had | | | | harmful to humans. In other words, less than 2 |
| stated in his writing. I have republished few of the | | | | percent of all snakes are considered harmful to |
| facts for the people who are interested in reading | | | | humans.5. "Cold-blooded" is not the best way to |
| and knowing more about reptile species before | | | | describe reptiles. Their blood is not necessarily cold by |
| making a decision to keep them as their pets. 1. | | | | itself. But they are ectothermic, which means they |
| Reptiles are among the longest-lived species on the | | | | get their body heat from external sources. Reptiles |
| planet. For example, large tortoises such as the | | | | cannot regulate their body temperature internally as |
| Aldabra tortoise can live for more than 150 years. | | | | humans do. |
| Alligators can live nearly 70 years. Ball pythons, a | | | | |