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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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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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