Facts about Snakes for Kids

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Snakes are fascinating creatures and there are so many interesting facts about them. This article lists ten interesting facts about Snakes.

Fact 1 Sight, Smell and Hearing
Snakes do not have eyelids, so they can never close their eyes. Their eyes are covered with part of their skin that is clear and looks like a scale. Snakes smell with their split tongue. When the snake sticks out his tongue, he is actually using his sense of smell.

Fact 2 Snakes are Carnivorous
An animal that is carnivorous eats meat. Snakes eat meat, but they cannot chew. Snakes swallow their food whole. They can eat larger animals because their jaws stretch so that they can open their mouths wide enough to take the animal in and swallow it.

Fact 3 Snakes Shed Their Skin As a snake grows, it must shed its skin. When the snake is ready to shed, it rubs its head against something hard, like a rock. The rock or piece of wood splits the skin on the snakes head open. The snake keeps doing this until the skin splits more and lets the snake crawl out.

Fact 4 How Snakes Move
Snakes do not have legs, so they move along the ground by using the vertebrae and ribs along their bodies. Snakes have scales on their belly and those scales catch on the rocks to help them move.

Fact 5 Snakes Don’t Fly
There are some snakes that seem to ‘œfly’ from tree to tree are not really flying. They do not go higher, like a bird. The snake will slither to the end of a branch and hang from it, making their body look like the letter J. He uses his tail to fling himself from the branch and make his body an S shape, flattening his body into a C shape and using wind drafts to move from tree to tree.

Fact 6 Snakes are Reptiles
A reptile is a cold-blooded vertebrate animal. They have scales and most lay eggs. Some reptiles give live birth. Lizards and crocodiles are also reptiles.

Fact 7 There is a Part of the World Where Snakes Cannot Live
Snakes can live in just about every place in the world. But, because they are cold-blooded, they cannot live in places like Antarctica, Iceland, Ireland, Greenland and New Zealand. A snake’s body temperature is the same as the environment around it and they need sunlight.

Fact 8 World’s Largest Snakes
The giant anaconda is the largest snake in the world. It can weigh 550 pounds. Some can grow to 300 feet long.

Fact 9 Largest Poisonous Snake in America
The largest poisonous snake in America is the rattlesnake. The have rattles on their tails that they use to warn their enemies.

Fact 10 Longest Snake in the World
The longest snake in the world is the reticulated python. It can grow up to 30 feet long.

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