Snake Bloggin :)

Selkie (dasypeltis gansi) 🐍

[herpsandbirds]

Common Egg-eating Snake (Dasypeltis scabra), eating a bird's egg, family Colubridae, found in most of Sub-Saharan Africa and parts of the Middle East

photograph by Mond76

[keelyscales]

[keelyscales]

bleh

[furbearingbrick]

ok so i was looking up into on Dasypeltis (egg-eating snakes) and found this image

this somehow led me to a Reddit thread where users were making ridiculous photoshops of the little guy

[fimbry]

Boiga cyanea

[william-snekspeare]

Favorite snake? Mine’s an Inland Taipan. 🐍🐍

Dunno if I have a favorite, but I do like snakes in the Boiga genus

I think them eyes r funny

[keelyscales]

[sunfish-exotics]

A little Frog baby

[chirmartir]

Ch😅

[keelyscales]

[keelyscales]

:p

[keelyscales]

[sunfish-exotics]

Cozy coconut

[emmatheward]

- Daisy couldn’t learn to love. 

[omg-snakes]

Dextro has eyes that have seen things beyond the comprehension of 'man.

[is-the-snake-video-cute]

How do egg-eating snakes breathe while they're eating? I've seen x-rays of the internal process of digesting them and it looks like they would suffocate before cracking the shell!

Great question! It does look pretty...intense.

The honest answer is that, for snakes, breathing is just overrated! The process of cracking the shell doesn't take a super long time, and it's no problem for the snake to hold their breath for the five minutes or so they need.

If they need to take a breath during the process, that's where the glottis comes in! See the tube on the floor of this snake's mouth?

That's the glottis, and all snakes have them. They function as a sort of breathing tube while snakes eat, and they can actually move them around their food as they eat. It's pretty wild.

So, yeah! It's a combination of low oxygen requirements and anatomy designed for breathing around large food items.

[keelyscales]

Selkie approved message

[keelyscales]

[keelyscales]

Had to fish her out of her log