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Snakes, with Prof Mark O’Shea

Instant Genius

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What Is the Number of Snakes in the UK?

There are three native snakes in Britain, the grass snake and Adderall Viper. The Oscar-Lapian snake is a European rat snake found in two colonies. New Zealand and Ireland have no snakes at all. So what is it about the UK that means we have so very few species of snakes?

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