How do land and water snakes differ?
One of our many water snakes looks like a big brother of the red king snake. The diamond backed water snake resembles the diamond backed rattlesnake of the dusty deserts. Sad to say, the deadly water moccasin can be mistaken for the harmless comic called a puff adder. However, it is easy to tell any of these water snakes from an ocean going sea snake. All snakes, so far as we know, can swim gracefully on the water and below the surface. Desert snakes seldom get a chance to dunk in a stream. But almost all snakes do not hesitate to take to the water to chase a frisky victim. Any snake will grab the chance to escape his enemies by slithering into the water. Some snakes, however, spend most of their lives in swamps and streams, in lakes, rivers and lazy creeks. They are the water snakes and their close cousins, the grass snakes. A few snakes live their lives in the ocean. They are sea going relatives of the deadly cobra, and all of them bear poisonous fangs. The sea snakes have wide, flat
