Animal Facts: Blue Pit Viper – May 2020

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Their fangs can grow up to five cm. Or 2 inches.
They enjoy eating small mammals, birds, amphibians, lizards and eggs.
They swallow their prey whole once it is dead!
They live in the rainforest and the deserts in southeast Asia.
The maximum length they can grow up to is 12 feet long!
Their venom can make you bleed inside and outside the body, so your blood cells start to pop!
They give live birth to their young.
They kill their victim with their venom. It takes 10 minutes to kill their victim if not rushed to hospital. The wound will have a chance of being fatal.
The blue pit viper can see very well in the dark! Be Careful if you want to see them at night.
When they are babies they eat rat tails.
Pit vipers are the largest group of snakes in the world.
Blue pit vipers fangs are at the front of their mouth!
Viper’s strike open mouthed in self defence.
Blue pit vipers can swim! Because they can swim you have to be careful in water.
Blue pit vipers pupils let in light!
Blue pit vipers can sense heat their heat sensors are in between the eye and nostril. They can sense where you are.
The blue pit vipers fangs are hollow!
Blue pit vipers can use their heat sensors to help find their prey!
Blue pit vipers don’t poop.
Predators of the blue pit viper are king cobra.
Blue pit vipers move really quick. eyes, is because their venom is stored in their eyes!
Blue pit vipers don’t use camouflage.
They shed their skin. Their colors stay the same after they shed their skin!
Blue pit vipers have multi colored eyes!