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Erotic snakes! Snakes, on the whole, are frowned upon. r bodies and the absence of legs, eyelids, and ear flaps distinguish snakes from all other reptiles. They are covered with folded, elastic sections of skin called scales.. Like their reptilian counterparts, they use the heat of the surrounding air to regulate their body temperature. The flexible body allows snakes to stretch to quickly heat up, coil to conserve body heat, or simply to warm a specific body part.

It's amazing how easily a snake can move from one place to another. By squeezing and releasing the muscles on either side of the body, the snake is able to move forward. Most people think of "sliding" when asked how a snake moves, but for a group of reptiles with the same basic body structure, different snakes can move in a surprisingly diverse way.  Snake scales are located at the bottom of their body and their movement is slower, which have scales extending to the top of their body. The larger the scales, the faster the snake speeds up.. However, sea snakes have flattened tails that they use as paddles to propel themselves through the water, and some tree snakes are called flying snakes, even though they don't really fly but flatten their bodies and spread their ribs to glide from tree to tree.

 Zoo visitors sometimes think a snake is watching them from a viewing window, but this snake may just be sleeping - it's hard to tell. Snakes can't see well anyway and only seem to notice things if they move. Via vibrations, snakes sense the movement of their prey. Snakes are sensitive to vibrations, especially those produced by their prey, but their sense of smell is most acute.

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Snakes live on land and in water, as well as in every imaginable habitat, on every continent except Antarctica.

They can be found in open oceans, vast deserts, and mountainous regions at altitudes over 10,000 feet (3,000 metres). Snakes that live in places with very cold winters may hibernate in deep underground dens, where they remain inactive until spring brings warm weather again. The snakes spend their time in the desert and exploit the burrows of other animals

All snakes are completely carnivorous and have a fairly varied diet: they eat mammals, such as mice, rats, rabbits, fish, frogs or even other snakes! Some snakes only eat eggs, usually birds. To pierce the hard shell, the egg-eating viper has sharp bones in its throat that pry open the egg when swallowing. Then he spits out the crust pieces.

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Snakes find their prey in various ways: by sight, using heat-sensing pits on the sides of their heads (these snakes are called vipers) or on the lips of some vipers and snakes, by detecting vibrations with their body, or by "tasting" the air with their tongue to see what is nearby. Snakes have two main ways to find their food: active hunting or ambush, waiting for food to come to them. It is usually the larger snakes, such as pythons, boas, and vipers, that use the watch-and-wait technique, but even these can be tricked into moving occasionally if unsuccessful.

Snakes can strike (or lunge forward to grab their prey) with incredible speed. Some are content with grabbing small prey, which they immediately begin to swallow, others cling to their prey and squeeze it harder every time the victim exhales. These snags sense the heartbeat of their prey and narrow until they stop. Venomous snakes inject their prey with a toxic compound protein that either kills or paralyzes them.

The spitting cobra has modified fangs that release poison up to 2 meters long. This is strictly a defensive mechanism that benefits both the snake and its predator by eliminating all physical contact. The venom severely incapacitates a potential attacker but does not kill them as a bite would. People are often afraid of snakes because of their venom, but only a third of all snake species are venomous, and human deaths from snakebites are very rare.

 Can you imagine trying to put a whole watermelon in your mouth? Well, snakes can eat prey up to 20% of their own size! They begin their meal by swallowing their prey head first, gripping it with sharp, backward-facing teeth.  Also, the tracheal opening is at the front of the upper mouth and is movable, allowing snakes to breathe while swallowing.

Depending on the size of the meal, the snakes may not need to eat again for several days, weeks, or months. There have been cases when a large snake has not eaten for more than two years!

family life

Make way for baby snakes: Snakes lay anywhere from 2 to 16 eggs in each clutch, but some can lay as many as 50 or more. The mother snake incubates her eggs by burying them or wrapping her body around them and "shivering" to generate heat. In some snakes and king cobras, the mother stays put to protect her eggs from anything that might eat them; In other species, the eggs are left to hatch without any parental care.

Some female snakes live young rather than lay eggs, but it is unknown if they are viviparous or oviparous for most species. Snakes bearing young have a greater advantage in more extreme climates and at higher altitudes where it is cooler, where the young can be kept warm inside the mother's body.

Although there are a few known species that latch onto the mother for a long period of time, in most cases, once a snake is born or hatched, it is on its own. Usually the mother does not stay to raise her offspring.

The snake continues to grow throughout its life, but not its outer skin, which therefore needs to shed from time to time.To get rid of old skin, the snake may rub its head against a rough surface to help it turn the skin over, much like removing socks!

A young snake molts shortly after hatching or giving birth to escape predators, leaving its scent and skin behind as it scurries away. It grows quickly at first and molts several times during the first year. As the snake ages, its moulting rate decreases, perhaps only two to four times a year.

The hot summer months are sometimes called snake season—not because there are more snakes, but because more people are out in the summer, often to snake territory. But remember: snakes want nothing to do with people. They like to hide and only bite if they can't get away from you or startled. To be safe while hiking or camping, stay on trails and don't put your hands or feet into piles of rocks, bushes, or logs where a snake can hide or sleep. If you see a snake, do not attempt to pick it up or approach it. let it be. He'll probably crawl away quickly and you can go about your business!

CONSERVATION

S.O.S. (save our snakes): Since snakes are very common in the world, habitat loss, hunting for food or trade in snake skins can have an impact on their survival. Yet, considering how quickly rodents and rabbits reproduce, we have snakes to thank for helping us control these populations. Scientists have studied ways to use snake venom in human medicine.

It is estimated that 30% of snakes and lizards in South America are endemic to the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. One of them is the golden sandeel snake, which inhabits the Brazilian island of Queimada Grande, nicknamed the island of snakes.The golden spearhead is at risk of extinction due to illegal trade and natural disasters

colony at the Cruzeiro do Sul University Animal Breeding Laboratory. . Additionally, six first-generation zoo-bred snakes may one day form the nucleus of a third insurance colony at the San Diego Zoo. We believe that developing conservation science and raising awareness among the island's population will reduce illegal activities there. A better understanding of the population dynamics and factors affecting these snakes will help us establish more direct actions for the conservation of golden spears.

Diverse in size and color, playing an important role in the web of life, snakes should be appreciated for their beauty and respected as inhabitants of this planet. Let them live.