A friendly Eurasian glass snake (
Ophisaurus apodus) I'd kept as a pet. As you can see from here, these creatures look superficially like snakes, but possess a very un-snake-like rigidity, almost like the hose of a vacuum cleaner. This is due to the presence of armor plates under their skin.
Furthermore they have external ears, something which no snake is lucky to have. I bought this ophisaur from one of the horrible petshops near my house, and rehabilitated it for a few weeks before releasing it to the wild on the plains outside my city. For more on ophisaurs, (or Scheltopusiks, as they are better known,) read
this article on Wikipedia.
A friendly Eurasian glass snake (Ophisaurus apodus) I'd kept as a pet. As you can see from here, these creatures look superficially like snakes, but possess a very un-snake-like rigidity, almost like the hose of a vacuum cleaner. This is due to the presence of armor plates under their skin.
Furthermore they have external ears, something which no snake is lucky to have. I bought this ophisaur from one of the horrible petshops near my house, and rehabilitated it for a few weeks before releasing it to the wild on the plains outside my city. For more on ophisaurs, (or Scheltopusiks, as they are better known,) read this article on Wikipedia.
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