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All snakes are strictly carnivorous, eating small animals including lizards, other snakes, small mammals, birds, eggs, fish, snails or insects. Because snakes cannot bite or tear their food to pieces, prey must be swallowed whole. The body size of a snake has a major influence on its eating habits. Smaller snakes eat smaller prey. Juvenile pythons might start out feeding on lizards or mice and graduate to small deer or antelope as an adult, for example.
The snake's jaw is the most unique jaw in the animal kingdom. Contrary to popular belief, snakes do not dislocate their jaws, they disarticulate their jaws, the jaw acts like a hinge opening down up to 180°. Snakes have a very flexible lower jaw, the two halves of which are not rigidly attached, and numerous other joints in their skull (see snake skull), allowing them to open their mouths wide enough to swallow their prey whole, even if it is larger in diameter than the snake itself, as snakes do not chew. For example, the African Egg-eating Snake has flexible jaws adapted for eating eggs much larger than the diameter of its head. This snake has no teeth, but does have bony protrusions on the inside edge of its spine which are used to aid in breaking the shells of the eggs it eats.
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Tentacle snakes eat aquatic plants though
It's hard to imagine, but modern crocodylians (alligators, crocodiles and gavials) are very different from their ancestors. Some are plant eaters & some are meat eater.
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What is another term for herbivores?
Herbivores may also be called plant eaters.
What is another name for carnivore and omnivore?
meat eaters...and plant eaters.
What are meat eaters called?
sundews, bladderworts and pitcher plants are meat eater plants
What animal does not eat grass?
Most carnivorous(meat eaters) animals wouldn't eat grass. Herbivores(plant eaters) and omnivores(meat and plant eaters) would eat grass and other plants.
Is elephant ever ate a human?
No because elephants are plant eaters not meat eaters.
Are butterfly meat eater or plant eater?
plant eaters
What is a meat and plant eater called?
Plant eaters are called herbivores.Meat eaters are call carnivores. Both plant and meat eaters are called omnivores.You get that?
Was there more meat or plant eater dinosaurs?
plant eaters
What are omivorses?
omnivores are plant and meat eaters just like you may have heard of carnivores:meat eater or herbivores:plant eater. so omnivores: plant and meat eaters!
Is a hawk plant or a meat eater?
Hawks are meat eaters or carnivores.
What is the name of a plant and meat eater?
Meat eaters are called Carnivores. Plant eaters are called Herbivores.
Are owls herbivore (plant eaters) or carnivore (meat eater?
Carnivore
Are cheetahs meat eater or plant eater?
Lions are meat eaters. carnivores. They eat gazelle and stuff in Africa
Is a chicken a meat eater or a plant eater?
There is no definitive answer to this question, as chickens are, naturally, insectivores and seed-eaters.
Is a moose a meat eater for human flesh?
No, a moose is a herbivore. They are plant-eaters, never man-eaters, in other words.
Which has more efficient in converting biomass of producers to biomass of consumers-a meat eater or plant eater?
plant eaters because they eat directly into the producers.
Which is more efficient in converting biomass of produces to biomass of consumers a meat eater or a plant eater?
A plant eater is more efficient in converting biomass from producers to consumers compared to a meat eater. This is because energy is lost as it moves up the food chain, with animal production requiring more energy input than plant production. As a result, fewer resources are needed to produce the same amount of biomass for plant eaters compared to meat eaters.
