Snakes have no legs at all, but they move very well without them! A snake can zigzag over the ground just about as fast as most people can walk.
Snakes are different from lizards because they have no ears and no eyelids. And to smell, a snake flicks out its tongue! Snakes use their good sense of smell to find their food.
Most snakes like their food alive. They eat many kinds of small animals – even other snakes. Snakes don’t chew their food – they swallow it whole. Their jaws are hinged like a pair of nutcrackers. For a great big mouthful, they can release the hinges and open their mouths very wide. In fact, a little garden snake can swallow a whole frog! The African egg-eating snake can swallow an egg bigger than its own head. And a big python can swallow a whole pig, hoofs and all!
Pythons curl themselves around their prey and squeeze it to death. Other snakes, such as vipers and rattlesnakes, have poison glands. Hollow teeth, or fangs, inject the poison into the victim’s body. Some kinds of cobras squirt poison at an attacker’s eye.
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