Snakes have very good eyesight, as every snake catcher knows. The snake sees a person from afar and if it does not crawl away, it is only because it hopes to remain unnoticed. Snakes have poor hearing. They do not have an outer or middle ear at all, and snakes, in our understanding, are simply deaf. However, light shaking of the soil under the...

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Essentially, a snake is a lizard that has adapted to hunting mice and rats in burrows and dense thickets of grass. Legs in such conditions are only a hindrance. The bones of the snake's skull are movably connected to each other. This allows the mouth to open wide, and when the snake swallows large prey whole, the jaws “spread” to the sides....

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In total, about 3 thousand species of snakes are known on Earth, of which 300-400 species are poisonous. Snakes have mastered all possible habitats. They are found in forests, mountains, stepspes and deserts, in seas and oceans. Most snakes, of course, are in the tropics. There are burrowing snakes, terrestrial snakes, arboreal snakes that...

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