This information is written for both adults and kids.Ĭlick here for a great selection of books about tropical rainforest snakes. This page is a list of interesting facts about tropical rainforest snakes including how they survive, where they live, and the different types of snakes that live in these Tropical rainforest provide the perfect habitat for snakes to survive and flourish these regions are warm, wet, shady, and have plenty of prey for snakes to feed on. In fact there are more types of snakes in the world's tropical rainforest than in any other biome Planning a honeymoon or family get away? Cracked has some great travel ideas and we invite you to check out The 6 Worst "Vacations" People Actually Pay For and Fun Size Countries: The Insane Histories of the World's 6 Tiniest Nations.Īnd if you can't afford any of those lovely getaways, we invite you to check out our Top Picks and take a vacation to the Internet.The tropical rain forests of the world are home to numerous species of snakes. When he's not clogging the intertubes over at Regretful Morning, John Scrovak can be found on Facebook and Twitter. We're actually about done here, but you're welcome to find pages of other delights here while we go vomit for a while. For days they have been tearing and devouring like wolves and hyenas." " Other children were taken, alive, to Bau that the boys there might learn the art of Feegeean warfare by firing arrows at them and beating them with clubs. Man, this sucks, all the pictures of Fiji we can find make it look awesome. Just to be clear, what he is describing there is small children being used as decorative flags, and dying as a result of sea sickness. The motion of the canoes while sailing soon killed the helpless creatures and silenced their piercing cries." " About 30 living children were hoisted up to the mastheads as flags of triumph. OK, that's kind of gross, but that's just how cannibals were right? Everyone was doing it back then, right? Well yes, but not everyone was doing this: Of the men that survived the encounter, the majority were wounded badly, but still technically alive enough to wish they were dead. Or maybe, as soon as the soldiers were a third of the way through the swamp, they were attacked en masse by a testicle-shrinkingly large herd of thrashing, ravenous crocodiles. We like to imagine a Predator-esque stalking-random soldiers disappearing, followed by mass chaos and frantic gunfire. You see, Ramree Island, not content with being just the home to malaria-carrying mosquitoes, blowflies and deadly scorpions, also harbored another deadly creature the saltwater crocodile. death was an easy decision, the 900 man force entered the swamp.įive hundred were never heard from again. You see, the only thing standing in the way of salvation was a swamp. It was approximately at this point that they found themselves badly wishing they were on Snake Island up there. With one side open to them, they make a bee-line toward reinforcements. A 900 man cadre of Japanese forces on a small island off the Burmese Coast is being outflanked by Allied forces. Can you picture it? Allow us to help you: Conservative estimates range from the spine tingling one snake per square meter to the "drop dead from pants shitting fear" five snakes per square meter. In fact, the Brazilian Navy has forbidden anyone to visit the place, and they aren't doing that to protect the snakes. Remember how we mentioned the snakes only live on this one island? Well it's quite a densely packed island. What's so special about this one tiny island?" Well that's an interesting question, and we are only too pleased to haunt your dreams by filling you in. Now you may be asking, "But Cracked, there are poisonous snakes in loads of countries. This snake has one of the worst venoms in the world, which literally causes your flesh to rot off your bones. You see, Ilha de Queimada Grande is a delightfully exotic sounding island off the coast of Brazil that plays host to a certain breed of exotic sounding snake known as the Golden Lancehead. And no, is not a site for terrifying Indiana Jones / Anaconda slash-fiction.
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