snakes.

There are so many snakes in Mexico like this one right here.

They are slimey and there a lots of kind of snakes. They can bite people and maybe kill them and don't cut the head off it can bite you still it's kind of a live. 
In Spanish, snakes are called "serpientes."                                                                                                

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