. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 19R HABITS OF THE RINGED SNAKE. The Ringed Snake is fond of water, and is a good swimmer, sometimes diving with great ease and remaining below the surface for a considerable length of time, and sometimes swim- ming boldly for a distance that seems ^'ery great for a terrestrial creature to undertake. This reptile will even take to the sea. I have often seen tame Snakes taken to an old deserted stone-quarry for a bath in the clear water which had collected tliere. Generally the Snake would
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 19R HABITS OF THE RINGED SNAKE. The Ringed Snake is fond of water, and is a good swimmer, sometimes diving with great ease and remaining below the surface for a considerable length of time, and sometimes swim- ming boldly for a distance that seems ^'ery great for a terrestrial creature to undertake. This reptile will even take to the sea. I have often seen tame Snakes taken to an old deserted stone-quarry for a bath in the clear water which had collected tliere. Generally the Snake would swim quietly from one side to another, and might then be recaptured, but on sundry occasions it preferred diving to the very bottom, and there lay among the stones, heedless of all the pelting to wdiich it was subjected, and impassive as if i)erfectly acquainted with the harmless nature of stones projected into water. Nothing would induce the Snake to move but a jjush with a stick, and as the water was rather deep and the quarry wide, a stick of sufficient length was not readily found. The motions of the Snake while in the water are peculiarly graceful, and the rapid progress is achieved by a beautifully serxjentine movement of the body and tail. This Snake is suscei^tible of kindness, and if properly treated, soon learns to know its owner, and to suffer him to handle it without displajing any mark of irritation. Though harmless and incapable of doing any hurt by its bite, the Snake is not without other. KINGED SNAKE, OK UKASS Tropidoiutue natrtx. means of defence, its surest weapon being a most abominable and penetrating odor, which it is capable of discharging when irritated, and which, like that of the skunk, adheres so closely to the skin or the clothes, that it can hardly l)e removed even by repeated washings. Moreover, it is of so penetrating a nature that it cannot be hidden under artihcial essences, being obtrusively percejjtible through th-e most powerful perf
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