Robert Valentic / Rough-scaled death adder (Acanthophis rugosus) waving tip of tail as a lure to entice prey within striking range. Mount Isa, Queensland Australia.

Robert Valentic / Eastern brownsnake (Pseudonaja textilis) juvenile. Australia.

Robert Valentic / Coastal taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus) tasting air, Julatten, north Queensland, Australia,

Robert Valentic / Eastern tiger snake (Notechis scutatus) female, Yarra River corridor in suburban Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in mid-summer. She is in a defensive pre-strike position with hood expanded, accompanie...

Robert Valentic / Red-bellied Blacksnake (Pseudechis porphyriacus) basking on rock, Lerderderg Gorge, Victoria, Australia, February.

Robert Valentic / Monocled cobra (Naja kaouthia) on rubber plantation at Phak Lok, Phuket Island, Thailand .

Guy Edwardes / Mozambique spitting cobra (Naja mossambica) spitting venom. Kruger, South Africa. Controlled conditions.

Chien Lee / Red-headed Krait (Bungarus flaviceps) in rainforest, Santubong National Park, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Tony Phelps / Cape cobra (Naja nivea) spreading its hood, retreats into hole, De Hoop Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa, January.

Tony Phelps / Cape cobra (Naja nivea) emerging from a Cape gerbil (Gerbilliscus afra) burrow, hunting and smelling with its tongue, De Hoop Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa, January.

Tony Phelps / Cape cobra (Naja nivea) hunting, chasing a Cape gerbil (Gerbilliscus afra), De Hoop Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa, December.

Sandesh Kadur / King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) cannibalism, male swallowing a female, Agumbe, Karnartaka, India.

Sandesh Kadur / Close up of King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) cannibalism, male swallowing a female, Agumbe, Karnartaka, India.

Sandesh Kadur / Two male King cobras (Ophiophagus hannah) fighting, Agumbe, Karnartaka, India.

Thomas Marent / King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) in defensive posture, Agumbe Rainforest Research Station, Western Ghats, India

James Christensen / Anchor Coralsnake (Micrurus ancoralis), Septimo Paraiso Cloud Forest Reserve, Mindo, Ecuador

Sandesh Kadur / King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) cannibalism, male swallowing female on forest floor, Agumbe, Karnatka, India

Sandesh Kadur / King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) hatching from egg, captive, Agumbe, Karnatka, India

Sandesh Kadur / Young King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) hatchling climbing branch with cup fungus, captive, Agumbe, Karnatka, India

Sandesh Kadur / King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) male and female courtship, Agumbe, Karnatka, India, captive

Sandesh Kadur / King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) with hood raised, captive, Agumbe, Karnatka, India

Daniel Heuclin / Equatorial spitting cobra (Naja sumatrana) SE Asia, Controlled conditions.

Axel Gomille / Indian / Asian / Spectacled Cobra (Naja naja) raising its hood in a threat display. Karnataka, India.

Juergen Freund / Close-up of a Horned sea snake (Acalyptophis peronii) resting its head on its coils. Queensland, Australia, February

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Cape Cobra (Naja nivea) speckled morph, in defensive display, showcasing hood threat, Africa

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Clark's Coral Snake (Micrurus clarki) venomous snake with warning coloration, rainforest, Costa Rica

Claus Meyer / Aquatic Coral Snake (Micrurus surinamensis) showing warning color pattern, Amazon ecosystem, Brazil

David Gallan / Death adder (Acanthophis antarcticus) escapes a bushfire by taking shelter in a drainage pipe under the road. New South Wales, Australia.

Pascal Kobeh / Pair of courting Egg-eating / Turtleheaded sea snakes (Emydocephalus annulatus) New Caledonia, Pacific Ocean.

Pascal Kobeh / Pair of courting Egg-eating / Turtleheaded sea snakes (Emydocephalus annulatus) New Caledonia, Pacific Ocean.

Pascal Kobeh / Pair of courting Egg-eating / Turtleheaded sea snakes (Emydocephalus annulatus) New Caledonia, Pacific Ocean.

Pascal Kobeh / Pair of courting Egg-eating sea snakes / Turtleheaded sea snakes (Emydocephalus annulatus) New Caledonia, Pacific Ocean.

Pascal Kobeh / Close-up of a Egg-eating / Turtleheaded sea snake (Emydocephalus annulatus) with eggs coming out of its mouth, New Caledonia, Pacific Ocean.

Ann & Steve Toon / Cape cobra (Naja nivea) followed by pale chanting goshawk (Melierax canorus), Kgalagadi transfrontier park, South Africa.

Robert Valentic / Red-bellied Blacksnake (Pseudechis porphyriacus) female, upper Pambula River, NSW, Australia, spring. Controlled conditions

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Robert Valentic / Ingram's Brown Snake (Pseudonaja ingrami) male adopting a typical defensive posture, Hamilton Channels near Boulia in far western Queensland, summer. Controlled conditions

Robert Valentic / Ingram's Brown Snake (Pseudonaja ingrami) female from the Hamilton Channels near Boulia, far western Queensland, Australia. Controlled conditions

Robert Valentic / Strap-snouted brownsnake (Pseudonaja aspidorhyncha) female, Mulga habitat near Charleville, Queensland, Australia Controlled conditions

Robert Valentic / Speckled brown snake (Pseudonaja guttata) from Avon Downs, Barkly Tableland, Northern Territory, Australia. Controlled conditions

Robert Valentic / D - Rugose Death Adder (Acanthophis rugosus) mating, NT, Australia

Robert Valentic / D - Strap Snouted Brownsnake (Pseudonaja aspidorhyncha) female in strike pose, South Australia

Robert Valentic / Mengden's brown snake (Pseudonaja mengdeni) male in threat posture, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.

Robert Valentic / Mengden's brown snake (Pseudonaja mengdeni) male in threat posture, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.

Robert Valentic / Lesser black whipsnake (Demansia vestigiata) at sunset, Normanton, Gulf of Carpenteria, north-western Queensland, Australia. Wet season.

Robert Valentic / Rugose death adder (Acanthophis rugosus) male using caudal luring to attract potential prey, at sunset, Boulia, Queensland, Australia, summer.

Robert Valentic / Red-bellied Blacksnake (Pseudechis porphyriacus) sub adult male, Goulburn River floodplain in central Victoria, Australia, summer.

Robert Valentic / Red-bellied Blacksnake (Pseudechis porphyriacus) sub adult, Goulburn River floodplain, central Victoria,Australia.

Magnus Lundgren / Wild Wonders of China / Ijima's Turtle-headed Sea Snake (Emydocehalus ijimae) Green Island, a small volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean , Taiwan

Magnus Lundgren / Wild Wonders of China / Ijima's Turtle-headed sea snake (Emydocehalus ijimae) Green Island, a small volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean, Taiwan

Robert Valentic / Kangaroo Island Tiger Snake (Notechis ater) hatchling, Baudin Beach, Kangaroo Island, South Australia, autumn.

Robert Valentic / Eastern tiger snake (Notechis scutatus) newly hatched, Waratah Bay,South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, June.

Robert Valentic / Lowland copperhead snake (Austrelaps superbus) this species has adapted to additional waterways and a diet of farm mice. Panton Hill, near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, April.

Robert Valentic / Eastern brownsnake (Pseudonaja textilis) female s threat display. Merri Creek, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. January.

Robert Valentic / Coastal taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus) basking on a cool, dry season morning near the Millstream Falls near Ravenshoe in far north Queensland, Australia. June 2018.

Robert Valentic / Coastal taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus) basking during dry seasons, Cooktown in far north Queensland, Australia. August.

Robert Valentic / Barkly Death Adder (Acanthophis hawkei) aged 11 months. Captive bred, both parents from Anthony Lagoon on the Barkly Tableland in the Northern Territory, Australia.

Robert Valentic / Adult male King Brown Snake (Pseudechis australis) Winton, Queensland, Australia.

Robert Valentic / King brown snake (Pseudechis australis) central Queensland, Australia.

Robert Valentic / King Brown Snake (Pseudechis australis) male animal sub-adult near the town of St George in inland Queensland, Australia.

Robert Valentic / Hatchling female Inland Taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus) captive bred, (parents from Goyder's Lagoon in South Australia). .

Robert Valentic / Eastern tiger snake (Notechis scutatus / ater) with bokeh affect, Australia.

Robert Valentic / Lowland copperhead snake (Austrelaps superbus) found near rural dam, Fish Creek, Victoria, Australia.

Robert Valentic / Eastern Tiger Snake (Notechis scutatus) female, from coastal sand dunesn in the south western corner of Victoria, Australia.

Robert Valentic / Lowland copperhead (Austrelaps superbus) sub adult, basking adjacent to a coastal lagoon near Wonthaggi, South Gippsland region, Victoria, Australia.

Robert Valentic / Lowland Copperhead (Austrelaps superbus) juvenile from salt marsh habitat near Wonthaggi, South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

Tony Phelps / Cape cobra (Naja nivea) yawning, emerging from a burrow, De Hoop Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa, May.

Robert Valentic / White-lipped Snake (Drysdalia coronoides) assuming a defensive posture, Cotters Beach, South Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia.

Robert Valentic / White-lipped Snake (Drysdalia coronoides) male on coastal sand dune habitat, Powlett River, South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia

Robert Valentic / Barkly death adder (Acanthophis hawkei) juvenile, Barkly Stock Route, Northern Territory, Australia. May.

Robert Valentic / Strap-snouted brown snake (Pseudonaja aspidorhyncha) in pre strike position.Westmar, inland south-eastern Queensland, Australia.

Robert Valentic / Rugose death adder (Acanthophis rugosus) from open savannah habitat near Daly Waters in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Guy Edwardes / Mozambique Spitting Cobra (Naja mossambica) about to spit venom. Kruger, South Africa. Controlled conditions.

Guy Edwardes / Mozambique Spitting Cobra (Naja mossambica) spitting venom. Kruger, South Africa. Controlled conditions.

Magnus Lundgren / Wild Wonders of China / Chinese cobra (Naja atra) in threat stance, Shek Pik, southwestern coast of Lantau Island, Hong Kong, China

Magnus Lundgren / Wild Wonders of China / Chinese cobra (Naja atra) in threat stance, Shek Pik, southwestern coast of Lantau Island, Hong Kong, China

Magnus Lundgren / Wild Wonders of China / Chinese cobra (Naja atra) in threat stance, Shek Pik, southwestern coast of Lantau Island, Hong Kong, China

Magnus Lundgren / Wild Wonders of China / Chinese cobra (Naja atra) in threat stance, Shek Pik, southwestern coast of Lantau Island, Hong Kong, China

Magnus Lundgren / Wild Wonders of China / Chinese cobra (Naja atra) in threat stance, Shek Pik, southwestern coast of Lantau Island, Hong Kong, China

Ernie Janes / Tasmanian tiger snake (Notechis scutatus) two together, highly venomous species. Tasmania, Australia.

Ernie Janes / Tasmanian tiger snake (Notechis scutatus) two coiled together, highly venomous species. Tasmania, Australia.

Ernie Janes / Tasmanian tiger snake (Notechis scutatus) highly venomous species. Tasmania, Australia.

Emanuele Biggi / Zebra spitting cobra (Naja nigricincta nigricincta), adult, Namibia. Controlled conditions.

Dave Watts / Lowland copperhead snake (Austrelaps superbus) Tasmania, Australia

Dave Watts / Lowland copperhead snake (Austrelaps superbus) Tasmania, Australia

Dave Watts / Lowland copperhead snake (Austrelaps superbus) Tasmania, Australia

Chien Lee / Red-headed Krait (Bungarus flaviceps), Santubong National Park, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Lucas Bustamante / Zebra spitting cobra (Naja nigricincta nigricincta) at sunset, Swakopmund, Erongo, Namibia.

Lucas Bustamante / Western ribbon coral snake (Micrurus helleri) partially hidden under leaves, Yasuni National Park, Orellana, Ecuador.

Lucas Bustamante / Ornate coral snake (Micrurus ornatissimus) viewed from above, Yasuni National Park, Orellana, Ecuador.

Lucas Bustamante / Black Mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) lifting up head, Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana.

Tony Phelps / Two Cape cobras (Naja nivea) courting, with hoods spread, De Hoop Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa, October.

Tony Phelps / Two male Cape cobras (Naja nivea) interacting, De Hoop Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa, October.

Tony Phelps / Cape cobra (Naja nivea) entering a Cape gerbil (Gerbilliscus afra) burrow, hunting, De Hoop Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa, October.

Tony Phelps / Two male Cape cobras (Naja nivea) competing for basking space De Hoop Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa, September.

Tony Phelps / Cape cobra (Naja nivea) entering a hole in a wall, seen from inside, De Hoop Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa, October.

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Southern tree hyrax (Dendrohyrax arboreus) on a termite mound, Tarangire National Park, Northern Tanzania.

Anup Shah / Baby Rock hyrax (Procavia capensis) on a rock, Serengeti NP, Tanzania 2007

Anup Shah / Family of young Rock hyrax {Procavia capensis} sunning on rock, Serengeti NP, Tanzania

Anup Shah / Rock hyrax family (Procavia capensis) Serengeti NP, Tanzania

Anup Shah / Young Rock hyrax (Procavia capensis) Serengeti NP, Tanzania

Anup Shah / Rock hyrax (Procavia capensis) family on rock, Serengeti NP, Tanzania

Tony Heald / Rock hyrax on coastal rocks {Procavia capensis} Hermanus, South Africa

Anup Shah / Rock hyrax with young on back {Procavia capensis} Serengeti NP, Tanzania, East Africa

Anup Shah / Rock hyrax with young climbing on back {Procavia capensis} Serengeti NP, Tanzania, East Africa

Anup Shah / Rock hyrax with two young {Procavia capensis} Serengeti NP, Tanzania, East Africa Not available for ringtone/wallpaper use.

Anup Shah / Rock hyrax with savanna backdrop {Procavia capensis} Serengeti NP, Tanzania, E Africa

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Southern tree hyrax (Dendrohyrax arboreus) pup on a termite mound, Tarangire National Park, Northern Tanzania.