Strange little known about snakes

Eating larger sized meats I even eat my own is two of many special and strange instincts of snakes.

Snakes are reptiles, cold-blooded, in the same class as scaly animals like lizards, geckos, but with teeth. In addition, snakes are also animals without ears, no noses, but they are very hearing and very fine, can hear and smell smell very far away. And yet, snakes also have very powerful biological weapons, which are fangs and venom ., but there are still many unknowns about this reptile animal.

Snakes can eat cannibalism longer than themselves

A group of scientists at the University of Toronto (UOT) Canada, led by biologist K. Jackson conducted a long-term study and found that, when hungry, poisonous snakes can ' swallow '. both of them are longer than themselves.

Initially, it used venom to attack prey, after the prey was defeated it began to swallow from the head. It uses jaws to grab and then use the spine to squeeze and pull the prey in. Once the prey has swallowed, the snake begins to vomit vomiting to reduce stomach pressure and make digestion easier.

According to research, snakes are the most common carnivores in nature.

Snakes eat their whole children

In February 2009, a team of biologists at Granade University (UOG), Spain, ended the study by two professors E. Mocino and K. Setser, and found that rattlesnakes can eat both the snake they lay out if these are too weak to survive.

In the study, the mother snakes ate about 11% of the eggs and the young snakes were too weak to survive. According to scientists, the reason for this situation is that rattlesnakes are drained of energy after birth, so they must survive by eating very weak animals and eggs that are incapable of hatching. This is also the mystery related to the ability to survive , contains many mysteries that people do not have the conditions to explore.

Snakes can fly as far as 15m

Chrysopelea paradisi also known as the flying snake paradise is a snake found in Asia. They could curl up half of their body at the tail and suddenly stretched out to create a rebound to launch into the air like flying.

Snakes can fly or "throw away " up to 50 feet (over 15 meters), passing from one tree to the other without crawling to the ground and then climbing again.

Rather, the flight state of the snake here is slipping or falling from a height. In order to 'fly' , the snake must make the 'flat' body then move in an S-shaped state, which is translational. The first is 'flattening' the rib system and creating a disc-shaped movement in itself so that it can be 'thrown' from high to low, moving from one tree to the other. This snake relies on the tail to control its balance so that it can fly away.

Python can 'eat' all prey

According to the latest research conducted by the French team of experts Lows Pasteur (LPU), pythons can eat prey without giving anything. This is a strange act that any animal has, pythons can fast for many months, but when it comes to prey it can 'eat and swallow' its size much larger than it. Eating all the prey here is true both literally and figuratively.

For example, it can absorb all the calcium in the prey's skeleton to the skin, meaning 'maximum' recovery and excretion at 'minimum' level. "In this way they are preparing to allow the body to adapt to a long period of" fasting "when it has sought to store tonic substances," said Jean Herve Lignot, an expert from Louis Paster University (France).

Therefore, after swallowing the giant prey, pythons can live up to months without eating, especially the digestibility of pythons so great that science has yet to discover all, the 'culture'. ' unique in python species, snakes that are rarely seen in other reptile animals.

Why does a cobra come or aim at the human eye?

For a long time, cobra is classified as dangerous, because it has venom, especially it can spray directly into the opponent's eyes, including humans when attacked. According to the study, doing this cobra uses the principle of muscle contraction, squeezing their venom to have enough pressure to spray rays, which can be released about 2m away.

In particular, cobra can direct this venom directly into the opponent's eye because nerve venom can blind the opponent for a moment, helping the snake to escape safely. According to the study, the venom extrusion is not in line with the beam, but in a special geometric form, with great pressure directed at the opponent's eyes. So it can blind both eyes of humans. Therefore, when exposed to cobra people need to be cautious.

The world's smallest snake

In 2008, scientists found the world's smallest known snake, which can be curled up in coins, about 10cm long, no different from noodles, with the scientific name Leptotyphlops carlae. According to American biologist Blair Hedges at Penn State University, the discoverer of this type of snake said that this is the smallest snake ever discovered by humans, it mainly eats ants, larvae and Termites to survive. Each time only 1-2 children.

Do not eat for many months but snakes still grow normally

According to research by the University of Arkansas USA (UOA), like pythons and snakes may not eat for months but still develop normally in length, this is done by reducing the metabolism of the body. up to 70%. The UOA study results were published in the September 2012 issue of Zoology, based on research in 62 different skin-colored rattlesnakes that live in the western United States. This snake has very special biochemical changes that help them survive without eating every month.

In the early stages of not eating, the snake's calorie burning rate is selective, consuming stored fat, then the rate of conversion decreases to help them survive and this is also the criterion for solid evolution. Although many studies have been done, the mysteries related to the fasting ability of snakes have so far not been walled.