Snakes in the Caspian Sea - truth or fiction?

As you know, the Caspian Sea in Russia is far from being the cleanest. At the same time, many experts argue about what snakes inhabit the Caspian Sea and if they exist, then how dangerous can people be.

There are many different testimonies about snakes living near the sea, in deserts and steppes. But among them there are not so many facts about the habitation of snakes in the sea, the more poisonous. Here are a few examples.

Water too

Water snakes are the most common snakes in the Caspian Sea. They live both on land and in water. At night, they crawl to the ground, and go to the hunt for the day. As you know, the snakes are not poisonous. They feed mainly on medium-sized fish, and sometimes amphibians. Often they hunt gobies. Catching their prey in the water, they go back to dry land and eat there.

Possessing a non-aggressive nature, water does not aspire to attack a person. He avoids meeting people and very rarely attacks or bites. His bites absolutely can not contain poison and do any harm.

However, many locals do not think so and say the opposite. This is due to the fact that they often confuse snakes with vipers that do not inhabit the Caspian Sea. Unfortunately, snakes in the Caspian Sea have turned into a scarecrow for tourists, which is unfair to these non-aggressive and harmless animals. In addition, this attitude leads to their extermination.

The Caspian runner

This snake is a close relative of horror, however, much larger in size. What snakes are found in the Caspian Sea, Knows a lot of specialists and biologists while ranking here the Caspian skid.

This snake lives in Europe, Asia, as well as in some areas of Transcaucasia. Its length can reach up to 2 meters, and in some cases - 2.5. As a rule, skid lives in arid and stony places, steppes and deserts near the sea. But sometimes it can be found in the mountains more than 1,500 m above sea level. Rumors that the snakes in the Caspian Sea are still found, perhaps, are based on the appearance in the vicinity of this horror.

He mostly hunts in the afternoon, closer to the evening time. Like all the snakes, the Caspian shoal is a non-poisonous snake, despite its size. In this case, unlike the water horror, this snake is quite aggressive.

She is not afraid of people and attacks at the first opportunity. Yes, the bite will not be poisonous, but the fact of the attack is quite unpleasant.

Four-striped skid and copperhead

Another snake is a four-striped skid. It is also absolutely harmless to humans and lives in the coastal zones of the Caspian Sea. It feeds mainly on small vertebrates. It sleeps mostly in rodent burrows.

The four-striped skid is not dangerous to humans, like the rest, even though it lives in coastal areas. He is also not a venomous snake and will not endanger a person. Rather, on the contrary, the person himself is dangerous for the four-stranded skid. This is due to the fact that in recent times people have been exterminating a four-lane skid, as well as a water horror. Today the slides are included in the Red Book.

Another species of snakes of the Caspian Sea is the copper snake from the family of snakes. However, unlike the previous individuals, the medynka has a potent poison, paralyzing the victim. But with all this, this poison is absolutely harmless to humans, as in the cases with the aforementioned snakes.

Evidence of eyewitnesses

As was shown above, almost all snakes living in the Caspian Sea are harmless and not dangerous for humans.

Nevertheless, recently a number of evidence has been recorded that snakes in the Caspian Sea still appear. The Internet is full of video, where local residents are filmed for a variety of reptiles. At the same time, information on the sea monsters that live right in the sea: moraines and vipers, two-headed snakes and killer fish, is found on the web - something you will not find in the vastness of the World Wide Web. Do not trust these news and stories. Most likely, these are usual frightening tales. So far, no case of a fatal snake bite has been recorded in the region of the Caspian Sea.

In response to all the facts of detection and fixation of dangerous animals, it must be stated that marine poisonous snakes live in the coastal areas of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, as well as in some areas of the Red Sea. It is often possible to meet poisonous moraines in the region of the islands of Oceania, but not on the shores of the native Caspian.

We hope that you no longer have any doubts as to whether there are snakes in the Caspian Sea and how dangerous they can be to humans.