LogFAQs > #931821643

No, because desirable traits can be contradictory. The easiest example is size, since large size conveys certain benefits, but so do mid and small sizes.Unless the snake could also shapeshift -- which is likely a physical impossibility if it comes to significantly changing overall mass -- you can't simultaneously have certain traits.

Plus, unless you're engineering the thing from scratch, I'm not sure how viable it'll be to combine certain things. And the perfect snake would need to be a chimera. It would need multiple kinds of adjusting venom (to reduce the efficacy of anti-venoms by having multiple types and changing types). It'd need enough size to be an effective constrictor (and, as a general rule, snakes tend to either have venom or constrict, but hey generally don't do both). Camouflage would be useful. An extending hood would have certain advantages. It would benefit from having a tail that at least somewhat resembles its head (although that's more of an anti-predator adaptation). And, of course, they'd need a poisonous quality so that they'd be harmful even in death.


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