Reptile Behavior Quotes

The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.

Even snakes are afraid of snakes.

There is a pair of snakes who have learned to drive a car so recklessly that they would run you over in the street and never stop to apologize.

One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.

This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.

If you annoy the Hog-nosed Snake enough, he will roll over on his back and play dead. If you turn him right-side up, he will roll over to prove that he is dead... While he is playing dead, you can go straight up to him and step on his head or smash him with a big club.

The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.

Post-traumatic shock,' said Shaun. 'He thinks he's a boa constrictor.

When you have to react to a lizard that's a tennis ball, it's a really, really difficult, tricky piece of craft.

Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.

Eating next to a twenty-foot-long crocodile took some getting used to, but Philip was well trained. He only ate bacon, stray waterfowl, and the occasional invading monster.

Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met.

When the snake decided to go straight, he didn't get anywhere.

Have you ever held a snake? They are so strong. You can see why there are so many myths about them: they are unlike any other creature. It's extraordinary how that little brain can keep everything moving in different directions.

To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have not possessed enough of the eagle in my character to make a direct flight to the loftiest altitudes in the social world; and I certainly never endeavored to reach those heights by using the creeping powers of the reptile, who in ascending, generally chooses the dirtiest path, because it is the easiest.

Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere; along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great desert wastes alike...If it can it will get out of the way, and only coils up in its attitude of defence when it believes that it is actually menaced.

Go and copulate with yon purple lizard.

I've never actually met one in the wild, but I have seen a king cobra. They go towards people, they rear up six feet tall and they're very aggressive and they are very fast. And one bite means certain death. So if I encountered a king cobra in the wild I would be very alarmed.

How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly he spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in, With gently smiling jaws!

My favorite species to study would be Cobras and King Cobras which are two different families. They're very intelligent, and they're beautiful looking animals. Where they come from are countries and regions which I spend a lot of time in - South East Asia and India, those are places I go to fairly often, and so the cobras are my main interest. It's not a snake I can maintain, but when I see them in zoos and what not, I find them interesting.

I wanna see a snake eat spaghetti.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air

A lizard in the spring - hear his darling sing. A bird with wings to fly - go back to his darling weep and moan till he dies. A mole in the ground - root a mountain down.

A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.