Have you ever owned a snake? They seem like very interesting creatures.
Hi, I have a legless, carnivorous pet snake!
What does carnivorous mean?
Means, they survive by trapping and consuming animals or protozoans!
Wow, it is amazing that a skinny little snake can eat a whole animal.
Yep! Living snakes are found on every continent except Antarctica which shows they can survive anywhere!
Can you tell me anything about different varieties of snakes?
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
like all snakes, are carnivorous. Their diet consists of almost any creature they are capable of overpowering: slugs, earthworms (nightcrawlers, as red wigglers are toxic to garter snakes), leeches, lizards, amphibians (including frog eggs), minnows, and rodents. When living near water, they will eat other aquatic animals. The ribbon snake ("Thamnophis sauritus") in particular favors frogs (including tadpoles), readily eating them despite their strong chemical defenses. Food is swallowed whole. Garter snakes often adapt