Green tree snake

Dendrelaphis punctulatus
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 Taxonomy……………………………..
Food and digestion…………………..
Breathing and respiration………….
Skeletal system and body build……
Sense and sensibility……………….
Reproduction and offspring………..
Environment…………………………..
Did you know…............................
Sources…………………………………

Taxonomy
Every living species can be divided into taxonomy’s. Like we are the Homo Sapiens. The
green tree snake can also be divided into groups.
Kingdom: Animalia
The green tree snake is an animal because their cells are more different then by a plant
because a plant cell has: a cell wall, a vacuole, a nucleus, ac cell membrane, cytoplasm and
chloroplasts. But an animal cell has: a nucleus, a cell membrane and cytoplasm.
Phylum: Chordata
The green tree snake is a Chordata because it has an inter skeleton and not an exoskeleton like
some animals. Animals with an exoskeleton are usually insects.
Class: Reptilian
The green tree snake is a reptilian because it lays eggs, it is coldblooded and most of the
reptiles are carnivores.
Order: Squamata
Squamata’s are snakes and lizards and another species like that. Squamata’s also have
moveable bones making it possible for example snakes to make their mouths very wide and
eat bigger animals.
Suborder: Serpentes
The suborder is Serpentes with other words snakes and a green tree snake is a snake.
Family: Colubridae
Colubridae are snakes that are harmless do they are not dangerous. Also, there heads are not
very bigger than their body.
Genus: Dendrelaphis
All the Dendrelaphis have a slender body with a long tail and they also have on their backside
a green or yellow colour.
Species: dendrelaphis punctuates
And of course, is the green tree snake a green tree snake

Food and digestion

A green tree snake is a carnivore so that means it eats meat. But they don’t eat meat like loins
and anacondas eat, they eat meat like frogs and little reptiles, but they also eat fish. When they
eat something, they don’t bite the prey they swallow the whole prey in ones, so they must
make their mouth very open to eat big things that are sometimes bigger then themselves, so
they must have a trick for that.
We humans and almost all mammals have hard and solid built skull. We only have one
moving part in our skull, our jaws joints.
But snakes have moving parts by: their jaws joints and quadrate bones. The jaw bones are
flexible, so they can move, and they are not fused of a chin. And for last can the upper jaws
move.
When he opens it so wide as he can it will be very wide, and he can eat the prey easily. But he
still can’t get it in his throat but thanks to the jaws bones, that are flexible, he can move the
jaws independently. So, he can get it in his throat step by step.
The whole digestion begins in the mouth where the prey is mixed with saliva that contains
digestive enzymes. The process of swallowing can take hours or maybe days.
When that is done it goes to the stomach were the cells on the stomach walls produce
digestive juices that help dissolve the prey.
When it leaves the stomach, it goes to the gut. The liver, bile bladder and pancreas are just
like by humans helping with making the food less and less in the gut.

Breathing and respiration

Every living organism on earth needs oxygen to live. But there are several ways to breath, like
through you skin, with your lungs and if you live underwater you also need gills and snakes
also have their own way to breath.

A snake uses only one lung, the right one. The left one is not that good 5. right lung

developed and is by some snakes even gone. The reason that they have 3. left lung
one lung is because they are long and then are two lungs more difficulty

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because then you are bigger. To get enough oxygen in, because then they get less oxygen in
because they have one lung, snakes have a tracheal lung, this means that there is a tissue in
the windpipe with the same effect as alveoli. The oxygen that is inhaled can pass through the
wall of this part of the trachea, just like the carbon dioxide that must be removed from the
body. Snakes have these abnormal airways to optimally utilize the space in the long body

A snake breathes through his nose and he doesn’t smell through his nose but with his tongue.
In the last chapter, I told that a snake eats the prey in one go but how does the snake breath
while it’s eating?? A snake breath, when it swallows something. Through a kind of snorkel in
his mouth that comes out when the snake is swallowing something, called a
glottis. When the snake swallows something it will go out his mouth and
breathe from up there.

Skeleton system body build

Very much species have a skeleton like a koala or a giraffe, some don’t have a skeleton but an
exoskeleton like the most insects. Think of a beetle or lobsters. A snake has a normal skeleton
and is not so large. But the skull is a bit more complex and
different like I explained in chapter food and digestions.
Common tree snakes have about 300/400 vertebrae. (By
comparison, humans have only 32 or 33 vertebrae in their
backbones.) Strong and flexible joints connect the vertebrae and is not able the body to make
a wide range of movements. A pair of ribs is attached to each vertebra in front of the tail. The
ribs are not joined together along the belly and so can be extended outward, allowing the
snake to swallow a very big prey.
The body of the snake is also very big. They have very strong muscles and a lot of muscles.
By comparison: humans have 700/800 muscles, but snakes have around 1250 muscles. They
have so much muscles because the muscles are very small. Some people say that they are all
connected like an elastic but that is not 100% sure.
On the left you see how the of the snake is built. As you can see the organs have a long shape
just like the body. Some organs who influence each other like the kidneys (15) and the
testicles (14) don’t lay next to each other but behind each other. The digestions organs are
not on one place, but they cover the whole body.

Sense and sensibility

Snakes have quite weird senses if you look to the humans for instead. The snakes taste things
are a mystery, but it is quite sure with their mouth. They see with their eyes, but they see
infrared. They only can hear the low notes and not the high notes. With the Jacobson organ
snakes can smell things.
Snakes see only infrared so that means they always see things that are warm like our blood:
red. And they see the cold things like the ground blue or green. So, snakes can see everything
in the dark. That helps them to hunt in the night when normal preys can’t see anything except
a little bit of light.
When it comes to smelling things is the snake very strange. They smell through their tongue.
They do that to pick up the set-monocles and send them to the Jacobson’s organ. There the
set-molecules are made in to codes. Those codes go to the brain and that in a very high speed
that snake’s body al day does. The most special about the snake is that it can smell on with
side the prey is. If he pick up more monocles on the right he knows the prey is on the right.
They also need to pick up the monocles on the right place he has a split tongue. Isn’t that
great.
Snakes hear only the low notes thanks to the columella Auris bone in the ear. They don’t have
a middle ear or an eardrum. That is also the reason why they only hear low notes.
When it comes to tasting it is a mystery. Because we humans and mostly other animals have
taste buds. But snakes don’t have them. But thanks to experiments we do know that snakes
still taste things.

Reproduction
The common tree snake is oviparous, and an female can get birth up to 30 eggs, which are
deposited in a tree trunk or an old rotting log. The eggs have a relatively long (3 months on
average) incubation period. Male hatchlings are grey with blue speckles, and female
hatchlings are a more kind of brown. They attain their adult coloration after a few years.
Hatchlings are approximately 20 cm (7.9 in) in length and pose no threat to humans but are
dangerously venomous by the time they reach a length of about 45 cm (18 in) and a girth as
thick as an adult's smallest finger.
There is a strange thing in snake’s pheromones because that makes kind of love. Snake
females give pheromones when a female snake is ready to mate, she begins to release a
pheromone. When they give it, the male snake will try to follow her like he must find her in
no other way. The male snake tries to get sex with the female by bouncing his chin on the
back of her head and crawling over her. When she wants to do it, she will up her tail up. At
that point, he wraps his tail around hers, so the bottoms of their tails meet. The exit point for
waste and reproductive fluid.
The male inserts his two sex organs, the hemipodes, which then extend and release sperm.
Snake sex usually takes under an hour, but it can last as long as a whole day.
Female snakes can have child’s once or twice a year; however. Some snakes give birth to live
young. The common tree snake lays very much eggs but other snakes do it inside. Every
female snakes do not sit on their eggs like a hen, but in some cases they will protect their eggs
(and their young) for a few days after they leave the mother's body.

Ecosystem
Common tree snakes live in very wide places like lakes of well vegetated banks of rivers long
grasses field and even rainforests. They live in high grass because they can hide easier. They
also live in rainforest because, the name already says it, they live in high trees. They will also
enter house gardens that have fountains or ponds surrounded by long grass or shrubs. They
are active during the day, and rest at night in hollow trees, logs, foliage, or rock crevices. The
common tree snake occurs in the big areas of Australia's northern tropics and eastern
Australia. They are also found from the Kimberley region or with other words Western
Australia to Cape York and Torres Strait (Queensland). Extending down the east coast into
New South Wales and north into Papua New Guinea.
In Papua New Guinea are very much species of frogs, and there are huge areas of the country
yet to be systematically studied. They are hard to locate in the tangle of tree roots, ferns,
mosses, leaf litter but still snakes can find some of those frogs and other debris which makes
up the forest floor in many hilly or mountainous areas, were also those snakes live. The
species shown here are largely from lower montane forests, between 800 and 1750 metres
elevation.

Did you know

There are very many things we don’t know about the whole world, but we try to know
everything about it. And, by the common tree snake we don’t know everything about them,
but we know a few things that you properly don’t know…
1. Did you know that the green tree snake is not the only snake kind on earth there are as
far as we know 3400 species of snakes on earth on with 600 are venoms?
2. Did you know that the green tree snake is 1.2 metres and that is not so very big for a
snake?
 3. Did you know that even if the most snakes are not venomous still are people more
afraid of snakes than crocodiles?
4. You must have heard about those snakes who come out of the hood thanks to the flout.
Did you know that they do not react on the sound of the flout but on the way the flout
goes?
5. Did you know that in the Bible snakes as a symbol of evil?
6. Did you know that the common tree snake has more than 200 teeth’s?
7. Did you know that the common tree snakes periodically change skin? The old skin is
then thrown off.
8. Did you know that the common tree snake is very handy to get away all the frogs in
the area?
9. Did you know that if the common tree snake feels itself threatened the goes on their
backs and pretend they are dea? Their tongue hangs out of the mouth and there
comes a bad smell.
10. Did you know that a common tree snake only eats if he is hungry?

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