I don't know why I procrastinated replying to that question for so long...
Different kind of mazzelhs live in different kind of places. The most common kind of mazzelh typically live in temperate plains and woods. They can adjust to a range of climates, though, and "snow mazzelhs" may even do just fine in a tundra-like environment.
Aint adding people to my friends list anymore, KOS :P
Anywho.
I started working on this back in April last year. It's probably a total work time of around 5 or 6 hours, but it's taken me over a year to get it done > >
Image should be clickable if you wanna see it without having to scroll.
Speed painting. I honestly didn't really believe it either, but it was 4:17AM when I realized I should go to bed (and left the Xat chatroom, only to shortly thereafter start painting), and it was 4:56AM by the time I made this post.
So 40ish minutes. Still, though, I didn't post it to brag about speediness, so as long as it's still a nice drawing, it doesn't matter if ya believe it or not~
And yeah, lightning-dragon-snake kinda sums its attributes up.