Adders will be the only venomous snakes within Britain, vehicles are absent from Ireland. They'll use their venom to immobilise prey for instance lizards, amphibians, nestlings and small mammals. After striking their prey, they leave the venom to take effect before following a victim’s scent to obtain the body. Although an adder’s venom poses little danger into a healthy adult human, the bite is very painful as well as urgent medical attention. Adders are the most northerly distributed snake and the only species found in the Arctic circle.
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Adder is Any of several groups of venomous snakes of the Viperidae family including Vipera berus that they are the common European adder they found in Europe and northern Asia. And other snakes that include Adder are:
-Acanthophis sp., death adders, a genus of elapid snakes that was found in South East Asia and Australia.
-Heterodon sp., hog-nosed snakes, a genus of harmless colubrid snakes that was found in the North America.
-Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen, the northern copperhead, a venomous viper that was found in the eastern United States.
Adders are relatively common in aspects of rough, open countryside and are often associated with woodland edge habitats. They are less inclined to disappear into your surrounding undergrowth when disturbed and tend to be essentially the most frequently seen with the three British snakes. The best time to see them is at early spring when they emerge using their hibernation dens. By mid April, the males have shed their dull winter skin and so are willing to mate. There's a lot of frenzied activity on warm days, with males trying to find females and occasionally wrestling for some other males for supremacy. The 'dance of the adders' was considered a mating display, however it is a bigger male wanting to dispel a smaller one. The snakes writhe around each other in a impressive way, often in the ground at great speed.