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Snakes:
Snakes are leg- and limbless reptiles with scurf
as skin. They have no eyelids and a special recharge organ in their mouth
which is aligned to their tongue to smell their surroundings. Some snakes
can also perceive the temperature of their victims which makes them successful
hunters. All snakes are very good swimmers. Some species are so specialised,
that they only come to land for breeding (sea snakes).
Their are seven groups of Snakes in Australia:
- File Snakes (Acrochorididae)
- Blind Snakes (Typhlopidae)
- Pythons (Boidae)
- Colubrid Snakes (Colubridae)
- Elapid Snakes (Elapidae)
- Sea Kraits (Laticaudidae)
- Sea Snakes (Hydrophiidae)
The Reproduction of the snakes is varying from egg-laying to live-bearing. Most of the Snakes use poison which interacts to the nerves of their victim. One common group (the Pythons) does not have the poison fang and they do not use any type of poison. The python strangles its victim by coiling and constricting around until the victim suffocates. The pythons are also the only Australian snake group which has basic approaches of a pelvic bone. These bones can be felt as an mandrel at the side of their body.
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