Interesting facts about snakes
Interesting facts about snakes
2. Snakes have two sets of teeth on the upper jaw, one set on the lower jaw. Snakes which are poisonous have fangs. The fangs, unlike normal teeth, are hollow. This means they can inject their toxin with the efficiency of a hypodermic syringe. They do not need a lot of venom - the venom of a cobra can kill an elephant.
3. The swiftest snake on land is the Black Mamba. They can reach speeds of up to 12 miles per hour.
4. Constricting snakes have very flexible jaws and muscular bodies. Pythons, for example, can and will crush and eat almost anything. A large meal (eg a human being) will sustain on of these snakes for about a year.
5. A dead rattlesnake can still bite you if you get too close. The snake’s heat sensors remain active until rigor mortis is complete, a day or more later.
6. The most toxic snake of all is the Taipan snake of Australia. It could kill 100 people with a single bite, but thankfully is quite a placid snake and reserves its wrath for rats.
7. Reptiles include lizards and snakes, tortoises and turtles, crocodiles and alligators, and the tuatara.
8. Reptiles can be found on land and in water.
9. Reptiles have scaly skin that helps them retain moisture.
10. Reptiles breathe air through lungs.
11. Most reptile babies hatch from eggs.
12. Snakes can live in water, under-ground, or in trees.
13. Snakes use their tongues to taste and smell the air.
14. Snakes are meat eaters.
15. Some snakes kill their prey by biting it with poison fangs.
16. Some snakes squeeze their prey to death.
17. Snakes open their mouths so wide, they can swallow their food whole.
18. Different snakes move in S-curves, in bunched up loops, in straight lines like a caterpillar, or in back-and-forth flips called sidewinding.
19. The body of a snake is covered in scales.
20. Snake skin does not stretch much, so as they grow, snakes must shed their old skin and grow new, bigger skin. Snakes shed their skin many times in their lives.
21. Most snake babies hatch from leathery eggs.
22. Mammals are warm-blooded. Their bodies stay at about the same temperature all the time, as long as they’re healthy. (Our normal body temperature is 98.6Âş F.)
23. Reptiles are cold-blooded. Their temperatures go down when the weather is cold and up when it is hot.
24. There are about 3000 species of snakes in the world. And 375 of them are venomous.
25. Snake jaws are not together that means that snakes jaws are not hooked up at the back of their mouth and that makes it possible to eat big meals bigger than their heads.
26. A python can swallow a full size deer whole.
27. Snakes have tubes at the bottom of their mouths the tube comes out to get air when the mouth is full.
28. Only poisonous snakes have fangs and the non-poisonous snakes don’t have fangs but they have teeth.
29. Chinese would use snake skin for there medicine. Some snakes were used for oil in china. Some snake skin is used for clothes shoes and boot’s.
30. The tiger snake was found in southern and eastern Australia and is venomous and if you threaten or disturb they will attack.
31. Snakes do not have ears, so they cannot hear. However, snakes can feel vibrations on the ground that accompany many sounds.
32. Snakes have nostrils which they use to smell.
33. Snakes can also stick out their tongue in order to help them smell.
34. Snakes catch smells on their forked tongue which they bring into their mouth where there are openings to a special smelling organ.
35. The smallest snake is Blind Thread Snake which lives in the Caribbean. Could slither through the center of a pencil if the lead were removed. Grows to less than 10 cm in length.
36. The longest snake is Reticulated Python. This snake lives on the continent of South America. Can grow to lengths of 33 feet. Although the longest, the python is not the largest. The green anaconda can be twice the weight of a similar length python.
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