Yes there are snakes in Malta, although fortunately I haven't come across any of them in person yet. In fact there are four distinct types of snake slithering around the place and all four of them have suitably cool/dangerous sounding names. There's a Cat Snake; a Leopard Snake; an Algerian Whip Snake and the biggest of the bunch is the 2 metre-long Black Whip Snake. Now the good news is that despite the impressive names, none of these guys are dangerous to humans, although they may give your heart a bit of a jump if you spot one sliding under your bed covers. So you know what to look out for, here's a brief description of each:
Cat Snake:
Described as 'shy and nocturnal', which is probably a good thing. It does have poison fangs, but they're stuck in the back of it's mouth so they only work on things like rats and mice, and the poison is too weak to harm us anyway. Lives in the south-east of the island.
Described as 'shy and nocturnal', which is probably a good thing. It does have poison fangs, but they're stuck in the back of it's mouth so they only work on things like rats and mice, and the poison is too weak to harm us anyway. Lives in the south-east of the island.
