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| rdfs:comment | - In 1957 in the Amazon, an unusually large rat snake was grabbed by Mutt Williams and taken to a dry sandpit to be used as a rope to rescue Marion Ravenwood and Indiana Jones. Ravenwood was quick to use the snake to pull herself out of the sand, but Jones balked, due to his ophidiophobia. Eventually, with Ravenwood and Williams both yelling at him and pretending it was a rope, Jones was pulled free, and the hissing snake was tossed back into the jungle.
- Rat snakes are medium to large constrictors that can be found through a great portion of the northern hemisphere. They feed primarily on rodents and birds and, with some species exceeding 3 m (10 feet), they can occupy top levels of some food chains. Many species make attractive and docile pets and one, the corn snake, is one of the most popular reptile pets in the world. Other species can be very skittish and sometimes aggressive but bites are seldom serious. As with nearly all colubrids, rat snakes pose no threat to humans. Rat snakes were long thought to be completely nonvenomous, but recent studies have shown that some Old World species do possess small amounts of venom (amounts so small as to be negligible to humans).
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| abstract | - Rat snakes are medium to large constrictors that can be found through a great portion of the northern hemisphere. They feed primarily on rodents and birds and, with some species exceeding 3 m (10 feet), they can occupy top levels of some food chains. Many species make attractive and docile pets and one, the corn snake, is one of the most popular reptile pets in the world. Other species can be very skittish and sometimes aggressive but bites are seldom serious. As with nearly all colubrids, rat snakes pose no threat to humans. Rat snakes were long thought to be completely nonvenomous, but recent studies have shown that some Old World species do possess small amounts of venom (amounts so small as to be negligible to humans). Previously, most rat snakes were assigned to the genus Elaphe but many have been since renamed following mitochondrial DNA analysis performed in 2002. For the purpose of this article names will be harmonized with the TIGR Database. When searching for information on a particular species of rat snake it might be useful to query the old name, Elaphe sp., as well as the new.
- In 1957 in the Amazon, an unusually large rat snake was grabbed by Mutt Williams and taken to a dry sandpit to be used as a rope to rescue Marion Ravenwood and Indiana Jones. Ravenwood was quick to use the snake to pull herself out of the sand, but Jones balked, due to his ophidiophobia. Eventually, with Ravenwood and Williams both yelling at him and pretending it was a rope, Jones was pulled free, and the hissing snake was tossed back into the jungle.
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