Snakes
A snake is a slithery reptile that can live in the water, trees, caves and warmer parts of the world.
Appearance: Snakes have scaly skin. Some have dull colours. Snakes don’t have any legs. Snakes taste the air with their forked tongues. Snakes shed their skin at times. Poisonous snakes are bright colours like yellow, red and green. Those colours are warning colours.
Snake threats: Many snakes are dying because their habitats are getting destroyed to build towns and cities.
Often snakes are killed because they're poisonous. In the United States they kill snakes for their skin to make handbags and souvenirs.
Diet: Snakes eat their food in one piece. Snakes open their mouth very wide because their lower jaw is loosely joined to the bottom skull. This means large animals can fit through. Thread snakes eat Pupae, eggs, ants and centipedes. Pythons and Anacondas eat deer and pigs.
Burmese pythons produce the most eggs than any other snake. They can produce up to 100 eggs.
