Snakes

14000 types of saltwater fish

from Olivia

It's possible for mice to injure snacks, and that might include nibbling away at them.

There's been many cases of irresponsible keepers giving a small snake too large of a mouse and the mouse injuring the snake as a result. That's why dead rodents are much safer to feed to snakes. If the snake is finicky and refuses to eat pre-dead food (which does happen) then they should be supervised during feedings and small prey should be given. When using live feed, many snake keepers prefer to knock the feed animal unconscious before putting it into the enclosure.

The same reason chickens run around or other animals squirm or kick after decapitation. Most animals do this. It is a result of the total loss of neural input from the brain to control muscles. The brain prevents muscles from moving as much as it controls their movement (all muscles work in pairs, when one muscle tenses, another must relax). Also, whatever stored up electrical energy is left in the body is left uncontrolled by the brain, and just travels unimpeded through the various body parts trying to get to ground, which causes more muscle spasms.

Which python?

Green tree pythons live in the canopy.

Royal pythons live on the ground but not in the rain forest.

Anacondas are boas and not pythons, but they also live on the ground/ in the water.

All species of venomous snake inject their poison through their fangs, which are actually like hollow needles.

Males will have a longer thicker tail then females.

Females tail will be short and thin.

Yes they do ! Some pythons inhabit caves that are used by bats - they wait until the bats fly in and out of the cave, then pluck them from the air as they fly past.

There are basically two kinds of snake venom, hemotoxins and neurotoxins. Hemotoxins destroy red blood cells and tissues; neurotoxins attack the central nervous system. Crotalids (rattlesnakes) have hemotoxins, but a few (Mohave rattlesnakes and hybrid rattlesnakes resulting from in-breeding with Mohave rattlesnakes) have both hemotoxins and neurotoxins. Moccasins (cottonmouths and copperheads) have only hemotoxins. Coral snakes have neurotoxins, as to non-U.S. snakes such as cobras, Kraits, and other "elapids". Hemotoxins kill by destroying tissue vital to the preservation of human life. Neurotoxins kill by paralyzing the nerves controlling the diaphram; the victim suffocates as a result.

Very few people in the United States die as a result of envenomated snake bites -- about a dozen or so per year. In India and other Asian countries, the number of deaths is much, much higher, in the tens of thousands per year.

Nowhere, there is no such thing as a "King Kobra."

Yes. Snakes do sometimes eat other snakes. It is quite common in species such as king snakes and the king cobra.

Cucumbers, but only when it's startled.

No, snakes eat after they are done shedding. But they do sometimes defecate while shedding.

Well, crocodiles consume anything bigger than them and alligators usually consume anything that is smaller than them.

Earthworms and grasshoppers are invertebrates (no backbone) and have exoskeletons. Snakes are vertebrates (have backbones).

The teeth curl backwards to prevent struggling prey from escaping.

snakes have spiral bodies.........

The whole process from start to finish usually takes about a week - depending on the age of the snake.

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Pythons can be used by farmers. Farmers love these snake because they eat rodents that eat the farmers plants. So if a farmer had an infestation of mice, they should buy a python or two. Hoping I am of the most use.

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.

They are both reptiles and have scaly, rough skin.

They swallow them whole, and then their insides devour the rabbit.

They secrete a fluid (mainly composed of vitamin A) between the old layer, and the new skin growing underneath. This causes the eyes to go cloudy. After a few days, the skins separate, and the snake begins the process of crawling out of the old skin.

It usually starts by the snake rubbing its jaws on a rough surface (such as a rock or tree). once the skin is broken, the snake pushes forward so the skin gets snagged. This enables the snake to crawl out of the old skin - turning it inside out in the process.

Once the skin is shed - the snake will usually search for prey - since the shedding process uses up a lot of energy.

This depends on how big the rattlesnake is but they can eat from 10 to 15 small animals a day normally.