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The cloaca is the posterior body opening through which snakes both excrete waste and reproduce. If the female wants to mate, she lifts her tail and allows him to mate with her. The snakes can mate for several hours, and if one of the snakes decides to move, the other is dragged along. Females might mate with several males in a season.
Sidewinding is a type of locomotion unique to snakes, used to move across loose or slippery substrates. It is most often used by the Saharan horned viper, Cerastes cerastes , the Mojave sidewinder rattlesnake , Crotalus cerastes , and the Namib desert sidewinding adder, Bitis peringueyi , to move across loose desert sands, and also by ...
This is a list of extant snakes, given by their common names. Note that the snakes are grouped by name, and in some cases the grouping may have no scientific basis. Contents:
Cerastes cerastes, commonly known as the Saharan horned viper [4] or the desert horned viper, [5] is a species of viper native to the deserts of Northern Africa and parts of the Arabian Peninsula and Levant.
Pelamis platurus (yellow-bellied sea snake or pelagic sea snake) Praescutata viperina (viperine sea snake) Family Leptotyphlopidae (thread snakes) - 2 species Leptotyphlops blanfordii (Blanford's worm snake or Sind thread snake) Leptotyphlops macrorhynchus (long-nosed worm snake or beaked thread snake) Family Pythonidae (pythons) - 1 species
Lytorhynchus paradoxus, commonly known as the Sindh awl-headed snake and the Sind longnose sand snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to the desert areas of Pakistan and India ( Rajasthan ).
Snakes use concertina locomotion for moving slowly in tunnels, here the snake alternates in bracing parts of its body on it surrounds. Finally the caenophidian snakes use the fast and unusual method of movement known as sidewinding on sand or loose soil. The snake cycles through throwing the front part of its body in the direction of motion and ...
This has four movable little horns; so, when it wants to feed, it hides under leaves all of its body except these little horns which, as they move, seem to the birds to be some small worms at play. Then they immediately swoop down to pick them and the Cerastes suddenly twines round them and encircles and devours them.