Secrets About Snakes That Has Never Been Revealed For The Past 50 years.

🐍 INTERESTING  FACTS  ABOUT  SNAKES  🐍 

                                           

Black Mamba

    

• Snakes are interesting and unique reptiles.
• There are over 3,000 different species of snakes. Snakes live on every continent apart from Antartica, in oceans and on mountains
• Snakes come in all types of shape, color and size. The largest ever snake recorded was a reticulated python at over 33 feet in length!

SNAKES ARE ECTOTHERMS:

• Snakes cannot create body heat on their own.
• They are cold blooded and rely on the outside temperature to get energy.
• Once they are warmed up snakes have the energy to go about their day( or night).

SNAKES CAN SLITHER 12.5 MILES PER HOUR:

• Many people wonder how fast are snakes. Despite not having any limbs snakes can move surprisingly fast
• The fastest snake in North America is the coachwip species that can slither at speeds of up to 3.6 miles per hour.
• The fastest snake in the world is the black mamba which has been recorded at 12.5 miles per hour.
• Black mambas are able to lift up to a third of their body off of the ground while slithering.

1.1 MILLION PEOPLE OWN PET SNAKES:

• 4% of pet owners have snakes in the United States.
• In 2012 a survey made in U.S in which they found over 1,150,000 people kept snakes.
• The most popular pet snake is the ball python. Ball pythons are known for their docile nature, ease of care and morphs variety.

THEY CAN DRINK WATER WITHOUT LIPS:

• Most people are confused by how snakes drink water because they do not have lips.
• However, most species drink water the same way as humans. They use their mouths to create suctions that forces water in their throats.

BIRTHING:

• There are three distinct ways in which snakes give birth, namely Oviparity, Viviparity and Ovoviviparity.
• In viviparous snakes, female does not develop enclosed eggs, but gives birth to live young.
• Oviparous means the group of animals who lay eggs.
• In ovoviviparity the eggs are developed internally in the body of female snake and then she gives the birth to young ones.

SNAKES LIVE LONGER IN ZOOS THAN IN THE WILD:

• One of the most interesting pieces of snakes informations  for kids on the internet to note is that snakes live longer in captivity and grow larger as well.
• An Anaconda in South America has lived for nearly 28 years. 

THESE ARE THE SOME UNKNOWN FACTS ABOUT SNAKES..........