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Snakes are cold blooded legless reptiles, closely related to lizards, which share the order Squamata. There is also one species of legless lizard which superficially resemble snakes, but are not otherwise related to them. A love of snakes is called ophiophilia, a fear of snakes is called ophidiophobia (or snakephobia), a specialist in snakes is an ophiologist. There are over 270 species of snakes in India out of which about 60 are venomous. In size, color and habits they can be very different from each other. |
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Snake SensesSnakes have good vision especially King Cobra and the tree snakes, but most of them are near-sighted like borrowing snakes and the others. Of course, all are colour-blind. They do not have eye-lid to cover their eye. Snakes can smell pretty well mainly by their sensitive tongue,but not much by their nostrils. The tongue picks up the odours/molecules in the air and the Jacobson's organ above the mouth will make out what the odour is. Snakes like Pythons & Pit Vipers have heat sensing pits, which helps in detect warm-blooded animals like rodents & birds in absolute darkness. |
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Pits of Malabar Pit Viper |
