Venomous Snakes

[Sanju]

Reptile: What do we have here...?

Gastropod: Yooo!!! get outta my way.

Reptile: It looks so creepy, let's give it a try...

Gastropod: Said what???

Reptile: yom yom yom... it's like chewing gum.

Its tentacles are moving inside snake's mouth... eww yuck disgusting...
See how the snake is making the snail to come out of its shell to swallow like sucking. In the middle of video, head of the squamate is almost doubled. This type of snakes swallow their prey whole and alive. Thanks to mechanism of breathing from two holes and they can hold their breathe for certain time during swallowing and swimming under water. Snakes have two ways of breathing. The first is their nostrils, second is the glottis. When swallowing prey, the snake will push it's glottis, which is a tube leading to their lungs, out of their mouth so they can breathe.

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Snakes would have a pretty hard time choking coz during this peristalsis, the food exerts some pressure on respiratory tract too. Some of the fewest animals that eat or swallow underwater. Reply