What is a cat snake?

Cat snake is a type of tree snake with cats similar, vertical slotted pupils. There are many types of cat snake, indigenous for all continents. These night snakes are poisonous, but the poison is usually too weak to harm people. Different types of cat snake usually feed on lizards, frogs, toads, small mammals, birds and eggs.

Cat snake types can be found around the world. Cat snakes of the genus Boiga, originally from Asia, Africa and Australia, can reach lengths of 1.6 to 9 feet (0.5 to 2.8 meters). Snakes African genus with cat eyes can reach a length of 1.6 to 4.5 feet (0.5 to 1.4 meters). The species of the genus Telescopus, often found in Europe, can be 1.6 to 4 feet long (0.5 to 1.3 meters). The new world cat snakes of Leptodeira are generally smaller and reach average lengths of 1.6 to 2.6 feet (0.5 to 0.8 meters).

variants of the type of snake cat's eyes often have very different features. Asian cat hadimes have gold belts or yellow bars while the new world species often haveunclear dark spots deployed on a lighter background. But all cat snakes are quite slim. Their heads are usually triangular and often wider than their bodies.

6 These snakes are usually night and generally do not become active until twilight. While pupils of snakes with cat eyes may appear as a slit during daylight, they often spread and are rounded as soon as they get at night. The expansion of pupils improves the night vision of the cat snake by allowing more light to the eye. Cat snakes usually spend their days curled between leaf branches of trees or shrubs.

While female cat snakes can lie anywhere from three to 15 eggs on the clutch, depending on their species, most of the snakes of the cat laid an average of seven eggs on the clutch. They usually feed on small reptiles and amphibians, although they were also known to hunt small mammals, including mouse. Snakes cats can also feed on eggs of birds and reptiles.

While most cat snake species have poison, this poison is considered to a large extent harmless to people. However, the venom of these snakes at the back is usually strong enough to paralyze the prey of animals.