In article , Salty Thumb
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"Shell91" wrote in
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I'm thinking seriously about digging a small trench and setting the
new fence in concrete. It might help although I've seen snakes
climbing trees around here.

I don't know enough about snakes to know if the aquatic kind can climb
walls, but it wouldn't surprise me if they can. But hopefully a solid
fence would make it less convenient for the snake (or snake's prey) to make
it's way into your yard. If the fence's color contrasts greatly with the
snake, the small ones, if they can climb the fence at all, should make easy
pickings for any predators (herons, hawks, giant bullfrogs) on the other
side.

Some snakes can move their belly scales like little grippers & are damned
good climbers; some spend the majority of their lives in trees with bird
diets; others hunt rodents on cliff faces. But there are many other snakes
that would be unable even to climb over a branch without crimping their
lungs & suffocating to death, cobras for instance.

-paghat the ratgirl

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"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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(paghat) wrote:

Some snakes can move their belly scales like little grippers & are damned
good climbers; some spend the majority of their lives in trees with bird
diets; others hunt rodents on cliff faces.

While hiking in Australia we were carefully watching for snakes since
the 10 most deadly snakes in the world are all from Australia. All was
fine until we saw a snake climbing a tree.

Size is not indication of toxicity. One of the most deadly snakes is
about the size of a night crawler earth worm. It is the eyelash viper.
We saw one of these while hiking in Costa Rica, right after we saw a
coral snake lying across the trail.

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