AnimalsCroatia
Nose-horned viper Fun facts for kids
Vipera ammodytes
The nose-horned viper lives in dry, rocky places in southeastern Europe and eats mice and lizards.
- Where it lives
- in dry, rocky places in southeastern Europe
- What it eats
- mice and lizards
- How big it is
- about as long as a cat, but thinner
Fun facts about the nose-horned viper
The ones Sammy likes best. She tells them in the game, too.
Its fangs fold back against the roof of its mouth when it closes its mouth.
The little horn on its nose is soft, made of skin and tiny scales, not bone.
When something bothers it, it often hisses loudly as a warning before it would ever bite.
Its fangs can be longer than 1 centimetre, some of the longest of any snake in Europe.
Instead of laying eggs, the mother snake gives birth to live baby snakes.
It is often called the most venomous snake in all of Europe.
It spends the whole winter sleeping deep inside cracks in rocks.
It loves lying on warm rocks in the sunshine to warm up its body.
Riddle
Can a friend guess it?
Read the clues to someone, one at a time, without saying the animal. How many clues do they need? Fewer is better, just like in the game.
I love lying on warm rocks in the sunshine to heat up my body.
I sleep through the whole winter deep inside cracks in the rocks.
My mother did not lay eggs, I was born alive with my brothers and sisters.
When I close my mouth, my long fangs fold back against its roof.
I'm a snake from rocky hills with a little soft horn on the tip of my nose.
Sammy might be thinking of a nose-horned viper.
In Thought Zoo, Sammy picks an animal and you ask her yes-or-no questions to find it. You'll find the nose-horned viper in the Croatia adventure.
Play the CroatiaComing to iPad, iPhone and Android on 12 January 2027
