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More About Snakes ...
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All snakes are carnivorous, eating small animals (including lizards and other snakes), birds, eggs or insects. Some snakes have a venomous bite which they use to kill their prey before eating it. Other snakes kill their prey by constriction resulting in death by strangulation. Snakes do not chew their food. Snakes have a very flexible lower jaws, the two halves of which are not rigidly attached, and numerous other joints in their skull (see snake skull),
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Taxonmony
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Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family:
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Source: Wikipedia Read more about Snakes
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PICTURES (Click to enlarge)
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| Prairie rattlesnake |
Mangrove snake |
Mexican water moccasin |
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| Cascabel rattlesnake |
Neotropical rattlesnake |
Trans-Pecos rat snake |
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| Burmese python |
Burmese python |
Madagascan boa constrictor |
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| Corn snake |
Hognose snake |
Rat snake |
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| Burmese python |
East African bush snake |
Rattlesnake |
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| Pine Snake |
Ringneck Snake |
Common King Snake |
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| Black Rat Snake |
Corn Snake |
Black Rat Snake |
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| Red Coachwhip |
Glossy Snake |
Rock Rattlesnake |
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| Sondra Gopher Snake |
Snake |
Gopher Snake |
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| Gopher Snake |
Gopher Snake |
Gopher Snake |
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| Gopher Snake |
Emerald Boa |
Eastern Garter Snake |
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| Eastern Garter Snake |
Black Rat Snake |
King Snake |
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