You can be with someone for 16 years, be
married to that person and think you know them. then find your
whole life is built on a symphony of lies. Snakes are not like
that. You always know where you are with
snakes.
Hi, I'm Mike the webmaster here. I guess you have an
interest in snakes, or are just plain curious, otherwise you
wouldn't be here.
On this site are the things that are interesting to
us at M'n'M Snakes. there's a bit about us, a lot about
snakes, and snake links, which we hope will be an expanding
list.
Anyway look around and
hopefully you'll find it interesting too
.
"Education is very
important. People must realise that snakes are not out to
bite them and prefer to be left alone. They should also
realise that it is not their duty or right to kill snakes
out of hand. Being a snake is not a crime and even venomous
snakes serve a valuable purpose by acting as a natural
control of disease carrying, rice stealing rodents. The need
to understand snakes and the ability to live alongside them
are important factors for anyone living in snake country.
One classic example is that of the Irula of southern India
who used to catch snakes to sell for their skins. Now they
use their expert skills to catch and milk snakes for venom
research, and then release them again. It is always much
harder to promote conservation of an expressionless
'cold-blooded killer' like a venomous snake than it is a
cuddly, appealing, furry small mammal but many snakes do
need conservation and protection. Although endangered
species are legally protected by CITES and local laws, that
does not stop them being killed or collected. For some of
those species on the brink there are captive breeding
programs and habitat protection projects in place but for
many others we simply lack the background information"
Mark O'Shea
Explaining our
slogan.
I started out creating a
database of snake species for my own use, as it grew and
grew I became aware that for a creature that has been on
this planet for around 95 million years, with so many
species, we know so little about snakes. Some species are
known from one or two specimens only, other species we know
nothing, or little about their venom. Even the scientific
community seems to disagree on the genus of others. Hence
"So Many Snakes, So Little Knowledge".
There are around 3100
known species and no doubt more still to be identified. Due
to there being disagreements and confusion even in the
scientific world, I have only counted the species recognised
by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN),
and that's not counting sub-species.
The Aim of this web
site is to make as much of that knowledge available as
possible by providing links to as many snake related web
sites we can find. I'm not selling anything, nor am I
connected to any of the sites linked to this site, I just
thought it was about time someone listed snake related sites
in one place. So here they are.
Note: I have searched for, and
found all these websites, at the time of publishing this all
the links were working. As you can appreciate all this took
some time, so I couldn't verify the accuracy of their
contents and therefore take no responibility for them or any
consequences that occur due to what is in the sites reached
from the links on the following pages.
Mike
The
only difference between people who hate and love reptiles is
that those who hate them never tried to know them. Those
who did become addicts.Stan
Gielewski
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