Sea Snake live wallpaper

Most sea snakes reach a size of about 1.2-1.4 meters. But some kinds of length greater than 2.5 m or even 2.75 m. Typically, females significantly larger than males. Weight snake depends on the species, sex, and diet. Laticauda laticaudata with a body length of about 1.8 m weighs about 0.9-1.3 kg. The body shape is also different in different species. For example, a particularly large Astrotia stokesii ratio of thickness to length of the body. Many species are especially Hydrophis narrow head and cervical spine, which is why earlier mistakenly believe that they eat fine fish like eels. Now we found that they are able to swallow the animal twice the girth on the snake itself. A fine head is needed to detect the victim in the narrowest crevices of reefs.
Most sea snakes eat fish. Prey are swallowed whole and killed her pre-poisonous bite teeth. Fish are less sensitive to snake venom than warm-blooded animals, so the venom of sea snakes has a very high toxicity. Its action similar to the action of cobra venom aspidovyh and other members of the family, does not cause hemorrhage or tumors, and inhibit the transmission of nerve impulses, which leads to paralysis of the respiratory center and rapid death of affected animal.
Most species of sea snakes has a bright color, they are drawing simple - typically, this alternating light and dark rings. It is an unusual two-tone coloring bonito: its bottom side and the side light yellow, almost white, head and back - black, more black spots are located on the sides of a flat tail. In bonito and food composition different from that of other sea snakes: it preys solely on cephalopods.