A tiger keelback feeds on poisonous toads and stores the poison for its own use. Yasunori Koide via Wikipedia under CC By-SA 3.0. According to folklore, the sequence ...

Tiger keelback snake: the toad gets it in the neck Snakes fed a diet of toxic toads become toxic too — and they seem to know it. While many snakes make their own toxins, not all do.

* Description: The tiger keelback is so named for the beautiful colored pattern of its scales. The snake's head and body are basically olive green, but its flanks are orange, and there are several ...

The tiger keelback lives in Japan and uses its poisons for defence rather than attack. When threatened, it angles two glands on the back of its neck towards the predator.

What doesn’t kill the Japanese grass snake makes it stronger. The snake eats toxic toads and uses their poison to defend itself from predatory hawks, researchers reported Monday in the ...

The tiger keelback snake takes a different approach. When females get pregnant, they slither into the forest to eat as many poisonous toads as they can find.

Tiger keelback snakes, found in Asia, carry defensive toxins in swollen glands on the back of their necks. When the snake eats the toad Bufo japonicus (inset), it arms itself with the toad’s ...

Female tiger keelback snakes seek out toxic toads to eat when breeding, researchers report November 12 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. A taste for toxins may arm their young, keeping them ...

The tiger keelback has caused fatal bites, whereas the red-necked keelback has inflicted life-threatening bites, Weinstein said. "An important message from that is that we must really take great ...

The one-meter-long snake was spotted by a group of children, and one of them noticed that it had some features of the tiger keelback breed, based on his knowledge of reptiles, local media reports.

The tiger keelback lives in Japan and uses its poisons for defence rather than attack. When threatened, it angles two glands on the back of its neck towards the predator. The fluid that oozes from ...