My favorite pet is a snake. They are legless elongated carnivorous reptiles.
Why a snake? I love my sweet little kittens. They are soft and cuddly.
Snakes are just so cool. Many species have more joints so they are able to swallow prey way bigger than their head!
Snakes are very scary to me. I run from them. I don't even like a small grass snake. What is your favorite kind of snake?
Grass snake
The grass snake ("Natrix natrix"), sometimes called the ringed snake or water snake, is a Eurasian non-venomous snake. It is often found near water and feeds almost exclusively on amphibians. The barred grass snake, "Natrix helvetica", was split off as a separate species in 2017.
Subspecies.
Many subspecies are recognized, including:
"Natrix natrix helvetica" (Lacépède, 1789) was formerly treated as a subspecies, but following genetic analysis it was recognised in
Snake
Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes. Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads with their highly mobile jaws. To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species