Snakes are found all over the world and have different species. Snakes are also closely related to people's lives, but most people do not know about snakes, and the main reason is that they are afraid of snakes.
In some food cultures, snake meat is edible, and some people choose to use snakes to brew wine, and snake bile contains high medicinal value, although the taste is more bitter, snake skin is often used as an ornament.
In traditional Chinese culture, the snake ranks sixth in the zodiac, and people think that the snake has spirituality, such as the image of the ancient Chinese Nüwa is half human and half snake, and the snake is also regarded as the "juvenile" of the dragon, and the Chinese sacred beast Xuanwu is also the image of the unity of the turtle and snake, and there are divine beasts such as the Tengsnake!
It can be said that snakes have a long history in Chinese culture!
Because people do not like to contact snakes, they also have a one-sided understanding of the reproduction and mating of snakes, only knowing that snakes are an oviparous animal, and snakes generally hatch from snake eggs! So today let's learn about the amazing animal of the snake.
Snakes
Snakes are a class of footless reptiles, but also a cold-blooded animal, some snakes in the world today are poisonous, and the way to prey is to rely on venom and jaws to make a wide angle of opening and closing. to judge the size of the prey.
All snakes are carnivores, often choose a little smaller animals, insects and eggs, snake teeth can not bite the food, usually choose to swallow the food directly, after eating, the snake itself will enter a short dormancy, waiting for the body to be able to digest the food. In the process of digesting food, the snake will remain highly nervous, and if there is an accident in the environment, the snake will also choose to spit out the food to ensure that it has enough ability to escape.
Snakes also have the habit of molting, first of all, the outer skin can be damaged, and secondly, molting can make the body free from parasites, and the snake's life is molting, the snake after molting can grow, which is equivalent to "rejuvenating", the snake staff symbolizes power and treatment!
The courtship process of snakes
Snakes will have a hibernation season every year, in the case of harsh environment, snakes will fall into a dormant state to maintain their energy, when winter is coming, the body temperature of snakes will change with the outside temperature, it will become difficult to move, like freezing, the main reason is still affected by biological enzymes in the body.
When the outside temperature warms up, the biological enzymes of snakes will also begin to be active, and snakes will slowly wake up, but snakes will not wake up directly, but choose to bask in the sun and adapt to the temperature of the outside world. When the process is over, the snakes enter hunting and courtship!
Spring is the snake's estrus season, the female snake will secrete a liquid, and the smell of this liquid is stronger, if the surrounding male snake senses this smell, it will quickly find the female snake to reproduce, and the snake does not have so much foreplay and enthusiasm, just follow their instincts.
The mating process of snakes
Most of the organs of snakes are paired, even the kidneys and reproductive organs, usually not distributed around the body, but in order, but each time combined with the female snake, the male snake only needs to use one enough.
Male snakes will use their tails tightly wrapped around the female snake to avoid slipping off, and the mating time of snakes is not short, usually guaranteed to produce offspring smoothly at one time, the time is about a few hours or half a day, and the male snake secretes a strong material vitality, usually allowing female snakes to produce high-quality snake gall for three consecutive years.
The male snake's organs are also covered with inverted hooks and spikes, on the one hand, to ensure his offspring, on the other hand, to stimulate the female snake, in order to achieve the result of firmly binding with the female snake!
The reproductive process of snakes
There are two ways of breeding snakes, one is oviparous and the other is oviparous. Most snakes are oviparous, snakes are a cold-blooded animal, in the treatment of their offspring is also cold-blooded, of course, there are exceptions, but are a minority of snakes.
Most snakes choose to lay eggs in winter, and when they enter the energy conservation, the female snake will quickly abandon it after laying the snake egg, while the other part of the female snake will choose to build a nest and stay near the snake egg to incubate them, such as the king cobra. After the python successfully lays the snake egg, it will choose to tightly wrap the snake egg, in addition to the necessary sun and drinking water, the female snake will not choose to leave the snake egg, because the snake's body temperature is not enough to hatch the egg, the snake will usually use the body to repeatedly rub the heat to incubate the egg!
Like oviparous snakes, the gall is kept in the female snake, where the female is ready to hatch. Recently, there have been scientific discoveries: there are still some snakes that belong to the fetus. Red-tailed grasshoppers and borers, which raise fetuses in the placenta and provide nutrition for young fetuses, are also a rather anomalous phenomenon in reptiles.