How to catch snakes
Occupation zmeelova not get in any university. People learn themselves, learning from the experience of others and getting your practice. Zmeelovu be finely understand the psychology of snakes, know all their habits, natural features, habitats
Meet Alexander - serpentolog and snake catcher with 15 years of experience.
Viper inhabits dry foothills and mountain slopes covered with bushes, in the rocky gorges, springs, river valleys and cliffs on the banks of canals.
Sometimes going viper whole team. Often there have been cases when under one small stone found 10 snakes at once.
Here she viper - the largest member of the family viper in our fauna. It can reach nearly 2 meters in length and weigh up to 3 kg. The adult feeds on small animals such as field mice, lizards, rarely, sometimes not disdained other small snakes ..
Without making any sudden movements, presses the head viper snake catcher special tool, so-called "hook", and gently takes her just below the head.
Since this is one of the most dangerous snakes for pets and humans, Alexander has to be extremely careful. In an emergency, it is able to make shots towards the enemy
Once the snake was securely locked in hand, snake catcher puts his trophy in the usual linen bag.
Landing in the bag requires some skill and action sequences. Hold the snake with one hand behind his head, while the second opens the bag. It lowered its tail down. When the snake's head aligned with the edge of the bag, the animal quickly drop to the bottom.
It remains only to tighten the neck. By the way, put in a small bag of snakes is sometimes harder than large ones.
After a couple of hours walk we smiled a great success: we stumbled upon the queen snakes - cobra. Or rather - Asian cobra. This is a rather large snake, the length of which reaches an average of 1.6 - 1.8 meters. Of the 10 species of Central Asian cobra cobras - the only one that can be found on the territory of the CIS.
Threatening posture characteristic cobra - innate element, which is transmitted at the genetic level. Even newly hatched snake vertically raise the front part of the body and extend the neck at the slightest danger. If such a threatening posture is not enough, can cause false cobra bite - it hits an opponent nastily, with his mouth closed, thus protecting, their teeth from damage.
Because of this behavior in the wild is extremely rare to undergo a bite from the cobra. Generally most venomous snakes before attacking the enemy in the face of a person or animal that is not in her diet is any characteristic for this particular type of ways to prevent the enemy. Whether it's just a loud hiss, Kobrin Front Hooded or twitching tail which has a horn rattle.
The manner in Central Asian cobra bite quite peculiar. If viper causes instant prick her long teeth and the next moment his head thrown back, the cobra, whose teeth at times shorter, more often than not hoping for a lightning shot. Usually it seizes its prey and not only leans back once, but several times with force compresses the jaw and how to "touches" them to probably already sinking teeth and inject the required amount of poison.
The venom of this snake is extremely strong - in addition to paralyze nerves, he also destroys blood. It exerts neurotoxic effects causing convulsions, paralysis of the respiratory tract. However, deaths are recorded infrequently, because preventive actions Central Asian cobra.
Zmeelovov becoming less and less because the person working with venomous snakes every day exposed to mortal danger.
Manipulating hook experienced catcher can catch almost any snake. Hook it presses the snake's head to fix and then hand grip and can lift a snake lying on the ground and move it to a more suitable surface.
Caught snakes in bags deliver the car. Here he transplants of their bags in special shipping containers and these boxes are already lucky in Serpentarium. The day he managed to catch two viper and a cobra.
Before you put the snake in the designated place for it, it should be more accurately lay out of the bag and carefully manage to catch again. From the first time usually fail to press the cobra head towards the floor. Snake and then tries to bite. Alexander skillfully evades her attacks, one hand holding a quirky body and the other fixing her head
In serpentarium snakes placed in terrariums reserved for them.
Tools to help you when working with snakes (left to right):hook;
"Hvatalka" - playful name of Alexander. Designed to remove the reptiles from trees or shrubs;
forceps - a surgical instrument for grasping and supply of sterile instruments and dressings. It is used for catching small snakes. Vipers, for example, simply grabbed by the neck and carry in a bag. As an auxiliary tool of forceps used for fishing ffs, cottonmouth or medium-sized Gyurza. In these cases, the animals are pressed to the ground by foot and forceps clamped head, making it impossible to bite;
fixation strap, which is used in the laboratory.
The hook is also used in vitro. They are easy to carry snakes for a short distance. For example, when taking biologically active substances.
After trapping occurs the so-called "milking", when a snake take poison, and then released back into the wild.Poisonous snake is easily distinguished by the head wider than the torso.
Powerful and muscular body largest specimen is not so easy to hold in hand. Viper, trying to free his head, makes sharp and strong jerks. Sometimes she manages to even bite catcher. Sasha on personal experience convinced resourcefulness of these creatures. Here is just and help fixation strap.
Viper venom has a pronounced hemolytic activity and toxicity is second only to poison cobra. By the bite of this snake venom enters the 50 mg, and without timely and proper treatment are cases of death. Poison produced by mechanically "milking" - massage venom glands. After it is used for antidotal serum and, more importantly, for the manufacture of various medicines. According to its special properties viper venom poisons surpasses most viper snakes.
In Snake venom in snakes collected once every 2-3 weeks. From small snakes receive 20-40 mg of venom (dry or as they say crystalline weight), from large - by 50-300 mg per one yadovzyatie (eg 300 mg - from viper, 194 - from the cobra, 137 - from copperhead , 50 - from the f-holes).
Snake bite in any case can not apply a tourniquet! First, it does not prevent the poison into the overlying tissue, and secondly, the harness, especially bites and viper viper perezhimaya vessels contributes to further disruption of metabolism in tissues of the affected limb. As a result, strengthens the processes of necrosis and decay, resulting in serious complications. Cauterizing the bite inefficient,because the length of the snake fangs sometimes reaches over a centimeter. Poison penetrates deeply into tissue and cauterizing the surface is not able to destroy it. And in place of moxibustion forms a scab, under which begins fester. Remember the main thing - the man after snakebite need as quickly as possible to deliver in hospital, even if it seems that the danger has passed.
