The gold ring snake, commonly known as the gold armor belt, gold wrapped iron, gold footed belt, umbrella handle or Buddha snake, etc., is a kind of ring snake genus, is a very poisonous snake. It is a kind of highly venomous snake with anterior groove teeth, oval head, the whole body back with yellow ring and black ring arranged one after another, the two rings are roughly equal in width and narrowness, and the tail is short and rounded. It is active in plains, hills, mountain jungles, ponds and streams. It is distributed in areas around 25 degrees north latitude and south of it.

The silver-ringed snake, commonly known as the over-keeled gorges, the white-jointed black, the money white-flowering snake and so on. It is extremely poisonous and is the fourth most venomous snake on land. The whole body has white and black rings arranged on the back, the white ring is narrower, the tail is long and thin, and it is a venomous snake with a front groove tooth. It inhabits plains, hills or foothills near water. It is distributed in Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi and Fujian in China. Outside of China it is found in Burma and northern Vietnam.

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The golden ringed snake is afraid of the light, and during the day it tends to coil its body without moving, hiding its head under the belly, but at night it is very active, preying on lizards, fish, frogs, mice, etc., and swallowing lizards. The Golden Ring Snake is docile, slow-moving, and highly venomous, but does not actively bite. It is active at night.

Silver-ringed snakes come out at night and in the daytime, especially at night in hot weather, but they also come out in the daytime to bask in the sun when the temperature is 15-20 degrees Celsius and the weather is sunny in early summer. Silver-ringed snakes have a gentle temperament and rarely bite people, but they may attack and bite people when they are incubating their eggs or when they are startled.

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