To mark World Snake Day check out the EcoNorth team’s top 5 facts about Snakes in the UK:
- The UK has three native species: adder, grass snake and smooth snake
- Grass snakes can’t digest their food if the temperature drops below 5oC, which is why they hibernate
- No one has died from an adder bite in the UK since the 1970s
- Male adders are territorial whilst females give both to live young
- Grass snakes play dead when threatened, hiss and can release a horrible-smelling liquid from their anal glands as a defense mechanism
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