Most commonly kept snakes are constrictors of the colubrid, boa, and python families. This means that the snake, when feeding will seize the prey and then quickly wrap coils of its body around it constricting until the prey item is asphyxiated. Studies have shown that each time a breath is taken is exhaled that the snake squeezes tighter. Typically, after the prey is dead the snake will use its tongue to identify the head and then begin to swallow it whole.
TTOUCH for Reptiles Authored by Tom Williams Much is written in self-help books and blogs about the effect of what is known as the lizard brain – so named because it is the part of the brain that mammals share with reptiles. The part that controls simple functions like breathing and heart beat. It is […]
Some would describe grey as being a shade rather than a colour and Wikipedia describes grey as being colours ranging from white to black, quite a grey area. But when grey is added to the beauty of snakes scales and paired with crimsons and blacks it surely comes into a life of its own. Grey […]
