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Although many kinds of snakes and other reptiles are oviparous (lay eggs), rattlesnakes are ovoviviparous (give birth to live young after carrying eggs inside). [77] The female produces the ova ("eggs") in her ovaries , after which they pass through her body cavity and into one of her two oviducts .
All snakes are strictly carnivorous, preying on small animals including lizards, frogs, other snakes, small mammals, birds, eggs, fish, snails, worms, and insects. [ 26 ] : 81 [ 27 ] [ 101 ] Snakes cannot bite or tear their food to pieces so must swallow their prey whole.
In animals, parthenogenesis means development of an embryo from an unfertilized egg cell. In plants , parthenogenesis is a component process of apomixis . In algae , parthenogenesis can mean the development of an embryo from either an individual sperm or an individual egg.
Snakes are really extreme dietary specialists and generally eat vertebrate animals or weird, hard-to-eat invertebrates. ... earthworms or bird eggs. Some prey on other snakes. Some people fear and ...
The milk snake mates from early May [17] to late June. In June and July, the female lays three to 24 eggs beneath logs, boards, rocks, and rotting vegetation. [17] The eggs are oval in shape, and white in color. Eggs range from 2.5 cm to 4.2 cm (1 to 1.7 in) in length. [7] The eggs incubate for about two months, and hatch around August or ...
According to the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, female copperheads can have one litter per year, and the litters can range from 2 to 18 snakes, which are 8 to 10 inches long when born.
Some reptiles use incubation temperatures to determine sex. In some species, this follows the pattern that eggs in extremely high or low temperatures become female and eggs in medium temperatures become male. [14] Within the mechanism, two distinct patterns have been discovered and named Pattern I and Pattern II.
“She’s literally, like, still laying.”