From c.1300 as to go, move, depart; move (someone or something), transport. Sense of to alter, to change appeared mid-13c. (cf. shiftless). Meaning change the gear setting of an engine is from 1910; to shift gears in the figurative sense is from 1961. Related: Shifted; shifting.
The African Egg-Eating Snake. The African egg-eating snake is one of Egyptâs more benevolent species. These tree-dwelling snakes have a wide range throughout Africa and parts of Arabia, but in Egypt they primarily inhabit the southern Nile Valley.f thereâs one snake in all of Egypt most likely to be mistaken for a devil, itâs the horned viper. This highly venomous desert snake has a hornlike scale protruding above each of its eyes, giving it a truly demonic appearance.
Other common snakes are black racers, rat snakes and corn snakes and a number of water snake species. There are six types of venomous snakes native to the region. Two of those, the eastern diamondback rattlesnake and the coral snake, are quite rare and are both protected species. Two other snakes, the scarlet king snake and scarlet snake, are often confused for coral snakes because of similar markings, Wood said.