How do they snakes swallow things hole?

Answer 1

They swallow it whole, by unhooking their jaws. A number of factors help snake swallow their prey whole. First the skin of the snake is so elastic that, it can stretch around a large prey item.The two halves of the lower jaw are joint at the front end by a ligament not rigidly fused and can spread.Also the two halves of both lower & upper jaw can move independently.The articulation between the skull,maxilla & mandibular joints are all loosely connected & could widen apart while swallowing a prey providing ample space to accomodate prey body. Amazingly a snake can stretch its both jaw more than 180 degrees,enabling it a bigger grasp. All these adaptations makes a snake perfect for swallowing whole its prey even bigger than its size.

= to make it simple the snakes jaw can unhinge to 3 parts which allows it to swallow it's prey that is up to 5 times the size of it's head.

it starts swallowing it's prey head first so the limbs of it's prey won't block in their mouth and using muscular contractions to push their prey down to the stomach.

Answer 2

snakesthey put their pray into their mouths, and then they let it slide down, until they are able to get it to their belly. but usually they squash it to death, so the bones won't get in the way, and that it will make the process a lot easier.

Answer 3

when snakes swallow their food their jaws come disconnected and they have no teeths to bite or tear their prey
A cobra can swallow an object larger than its head by there jaw bones being connected by ligaments.
Snakes swallow animals larger than themselves not by dislocating their jaws, but by stretching them, as they have a flexible ligament to swallow their prey whole.
A snakes jaws are not solid like ours. The upper jaw of a snake is split into six pieces held together by muscles and ligaments. The lower jaw is split into two - again connected by muscles. When a snake needs to eat large prey, they 'unhinge' their jaw and manoeuvre each section forward over to swallow the animal. Once the prey reaches the snakes throat, the muscles in the neck contract to pull the prey down to its stomach.
Snakes have a different jaw construction than pretty much all other animals. It isn't a solid, u-shaped bone, but instead made up of several pieces with moveable elastic joints inbetween. This allows them to swallow prey even wider than themselves.

Answer 4

If you mean while it's swallowing, it's using muscles in its neck to help push its food into its stomach, with the help of its teeth and flexible skull. If you want to know what happens after: In a nutshell, the snake's digestive tract begins to rapidly increase the strength of its digestive juices while also rapidly expanding the thickness of the intestinal walls and increasing the mass of the heart. As the food begins to enter the intestines, the strength begins to wane some until they defecate. After defecating, it can take a week or more for the intestinal walls to deteriorate and return to a normal size. Stephen Secor has done some studies into this, called the Python Model, and his discoveries are slowly helping to shape the way many keepers feed their snakes. The entire process is extremely taxing on their bodies.

Answer 5

Snakes swallow their prey whole, since they have no limbs with which to dismember it and teeth adapted to gripping (or injecting venom, in the case of a venomous snake's fangs), not chewing.

Answer 6

Many snakes can dislocate their jaws and can swallow animals larger than their mouths might lead us to believe they could manage.

Answer 7

snakes have a unique mouth that helps the mouth to swallow it whole

Answer 8

All snakes swallow their prey. Anything that has an esophagus swallows its prey.

Answer 9

Most snakes can dislocate their jaw to allow them to swollow larger animals.

Answer 10

in their mouths