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Snake Superpowers

Renewal Shifter
Able to transform themselves by fully shedding their skin to grow and renew.

Snakes can hear despite having no external ears.
Some give live birth while others lay eggs.
Snakes don’t have eyelids.
Snakes aren’t slimy! They are dry and can feel a little rough from the scales. Some are very smooth to the touch.
Due to their narrow frame, snakes only have one lung.
Barbados thread snakes weigh less than a paperclip and can coil up on a U.S. quarter. Green anacondas can weigh over 200 lbs!

Pigments that color a snake’s skin run the visible spectrum of color—even into ultraviolet wavelengths!
Snakes are strictly carnivorous and eat their prey whole.
Snakes have flexible jaws which allow them to eat prey bigger than their head!
Some snake species, besides rattlers, produce sound as a warning.
They can smell with their tongues.
They can “see” heat. (infrared radiation).
Some species can “fly.”
They can change their skin.
They can “hear” with their jaws.
Some sea snakes can breathe partially through their skin, allowing for longer dives underwater.
Most snakes live in the tropics, but only one snake lives beyond the arctic circle.
There are more than 2500 species of snake.
They are speedy. Clack mambas can slither up to 7 miles per hour.

Snakes maintain balance in the food web.
Snakes eat rodents who host ticks, thereby helping with human health.
Snakes are a food source for birds, mammals and other reptiles.
Snakes as ‘ecosystem-engineers’ facilitate ‘secondary seed dispersal’, thus contributing to reproduction of plants.

The toxins produced by snakes are being engineered to help the body fight a variety of diseases and conditions, including allergies, heart attacks, strokes, blood conditions, diabetes and even treatments for aches and pain.
Recent studies also show an ability to target cancerous cells, meaning that snakes may soon provide us with definitive cures for various types of cancer.
Snake sheds provide an important source of nutrition to the ecosystem. (Other animals eat the shed skins.)

The snake can be depicted as a symbol of strength, creativity, and continuity. Snakes can also be a totem for some Indigenous communities, which symbolize the relationship of community members to each other, to ancestors and the past, and to particular places or sites.

“Anything with a mouth and teeth can bite, but will it bite? Not unless we give it a reason.” …snakes will only bite for two reasons.

The first reason is simple: to eat food. The second reason is to defend itself. …snakes are much more scared of people than we are of them because we could be a potential predator and that snakes in the wild just want to be left alone.

See Learning to Love Snakes.

All life, not just the birds and butterflies, deserve a place in the wild beyond your window.

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