grass snakes
Harmless garden slitherers
Grass snakes are nonvenomous snakes commonly found in Europe and parts of Asia, typically living near water and feeding on amphibians.
They're slender, olive-green or brown, and known for playing dead when threatened.
The term sometimes applies loosely to similar harmless snakes elsewhere: Don't worry, it's just a grass snake.
- slitherGlide smoothly, sinuously
- nonvenomousProducing no poison
- reptileCold-blooded scaled vertebrate
- cold-bloodedUnfeeling or externally heated
- serpentCunning, limbless reptile
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Reptiles with toxic bites
vipers · adders · cobras · rattlesnakes · mambas
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Non-venomous squeezing snakes
anacondas · boas · Burmese pythons · green anacondas · king cobras
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