In the animal world, snakes are cold-blooded reptiles, the lower the temperature, the fewer species, so the higher the altitude, the lower the temperature, the less snakes naturally have, so which snake lives in the highest place? It is a snake named - hot spring snake, hot spring snake is a snake that lives at the highest altitude, living near the hot spring above 4300 meters above sea level, higher than any kind of snake.
Among snakes, the habitat is more than a few thousand meters above sea level, most of which are venomous snakes, such as plateau pit vipers, snow pit vipers, etc., are poisonous snakes, and hot spring snakes are snakes that live at the highest altitude, but they are non-venomous snakes, hot spring snakes belong to the swimming snake family, is a non-venomous swimming snake, about 78-100 cm in size, mainly feeds on fish, rats and alpine frogs.
Snake is also a kind of temperate animal, the lower the temperature, the greater the threat to the snake, if the temperature is below zero for a long time, the snake will freeze to death, why did the hot spring snake choose such a harsh environment? The hot spring snake is an ancient snake, which not only retains a number of primitive traits of the snake, but also has some specialized traits, which are very different from other swimming snakes, and the hot spring snake has evolved a unique life habit according to the geographical conditions, adapting to the harsh natural conditions at high altitude.
In cold weather, snakes will find holes in the ground and choose to hibernate, while hot spring snakes are different, hot spring snakes can be active in winter and summer, because it only lives near certain hot springs in the Himalayan trough belt, which raise the temperature very well and allow hot spring snakes to move. Not all snakes need to hibernate, mainly depending on the temperature of their living environment, such as in the tropics or southern China, you can see the traces of snakes in winter, many snakes do not need to hibernate, as long as the ambient temperature is not low enough to make their activities difficult!
Hot spring snake is a relatively rare snake, due to the harsh living environment, so the hot spring snake is not as strong as other snakes have such a strong reproductive ability, hot spring snake female snake lays 6 eggs at a time, but also because of the harsh living environment, hot spring snakes do not have so many natural enemies like other snakes, and the survival rate of young snakes is very high.
Hot spring snakes are unique to China, but also very rare snakes, because their habitat is very small, only appear in the hot springs of the Himalayan trough belt, not found near the hot springs in Qinghai north of the Kunlun Mountains, so the hot spring snake, a primitive snake, has a very important role in studying the uplift process and animal evolution of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and is a protected snake!
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