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How do snakes sense?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

With there tongue! They flick their tongue in and out of their mouth to sence the air when the tongue is out it picks up scents and when it is flicked back into the mouth it rubs against the jacobsons organ which converts the sences and allows the snake to understand its surroundings

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