BEHAVIOR:

HABITAT: 

 

Snakes inhabits paddy fields and open sandy areas to thick rain forests, ‘mangrove’( Plants adapted for living in inter-tidal zones.  They have a great tolerance for saline water) mountains and even seas.  They adapt to several environments in temperate and tropical regions. 

UNIQUENESS:  

All snakes possess an acute sense of sight and smell.  Food is smelt by the flickering forked tongue end then relayed to a highly developed organ that inter parts this signal.  External ears are absent, and snakes can only hear vibrations, and carried through the ground.  Sensory pits, and poison glands are also highly developed in snakes.  Shedding of skin (sloughing) is also more prominent in snakes.

FOOD:  

All snakes are carnivorous, depending on the size of the snake and the prey available, frogs and rodents are the most favored.  The ‘King Cobra’ is unique in that it eats only snakes.  Sea snakes eat fish and burrowing snakes eat insects larvae and worms.

LOCOMOTION: 

 

Snakes have a unique locomotion, characteristic to the species.  This is known as serpentine locomotion, which is a method of progression through lateral undulations of the body.