Friday, July 31, 2009

THIS IS 5 FACT ABOUT SNAKE

Many facts about the life of a snake so incredible. Snake is able to survive for months without eating. Snakes can fly with a form letter S. Snake can also take target in the human eye straigthly.

Snakes can survive not eating for months, with how burning fat. Marshall McCue of the University of Arkansas with the research does not provide food to the 62 kinds of snakes for six months.

McCue and colleagues have found snakes are able to reduce metabolic rate to survive, some of them were up to 72%. Stunning even without eating, the snake can still elongate body. "Animals do this to the reduction of energy level is lower," McCue said.

While the snake eat a certain type of children who are not able to survive. Research found, mother snakes eat about 11% of the eggs and the children who died. Why snakes do that? Appeared to survive for the mother.

"Snake Rattlesnake female children take to restore the energy after the birth without the need for hunting, a dangerous activity that requires time and great effort," said Estrella Mocino and Kirk Setser, researchers at the University of Granada in Spain.

While there is a serpent that is capable of eating other snakes that body longer. How do snakes do it? To solve the mystery of the old, Kate Jackson from the University of Toronto and colleagues have an explanation.

In research they found the victim after the snake swallowed, such as the gut is pressed akordion that snakes down to the bottom of the victims and crash. If completed, the rest of the snake will spit-rest.


Snakes that live in the tree can also fly. Snakes that fly to reach the tree beside it more quickly. But it is necessary to fly a special technique.

To get the pressure of flying, snakes must be in a higher place. To get the furthest distance, snakes slim they body movement and make the letter S.

"Movement of the letter S is for stability, and they streamline its rib bones, "said Jake Socha of the University of Chicago.

While the cobra snake that is not visible spit spit. Snakes that its muscular contraction force to remove its poison gland hose up to 2 meters.

If the eye of the neurotoxin can cause blindness in humans. Research in 2005 on the snake was deliberately targeting the eye with they spit. And not only that, the poison can spray out with geometric pattern, so that the right eye. Wow!.

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