Snakes,
A snake looks like a long strand of slimy moving string just springing along from place to place, squish, squish, squish.
But, snakes are not slimy. Snakes crawl around by moving muscles. Biologists call snake movement serpentine motion.
Snakes are the most recent of all of the Reptiles that have evolved from the Dinosaurs. Snakes can not hear, all hearing (Movement) is "tasted" in the air and that is why a snake flicks it's tongue out a lot. Snakes are a true friend of the farmer, snakes eat the bad rodents that eat up all of the farmers crops. Snakes come in many sizes from the little Worm snakes from Florida, U.S.A., to the giant Pythons of Asia and Africa, that can grow to thirty feet long and can eat a whole pig. Snakes come in many colors like the sand snakes from Africa that are tan like the deep sand where they live, or the beautiful red, black and white Milksnakes that live in the mountains of California, U.S.A.
Snakes eat lots of things like fish, crickets, rodents, and even some lizards. I bet you can not guess what the African egg-eating snake eats... Yep, eggs! shell and all, crunch, crunch, yummy !
Some people are mean to snakes because they think that snakes are going to hurt them but, snakes are just as afraid of you as you are of them and its better to not touch a wild one or try to smash them if you see one, remember that snakes are our friends.
Some people try to use snakes to make money. People make belts and hats from their skin and some people like "Jake the Snake" that crazy wrestler, throw snakes around the ring and really hurt them just to get a laugh, but that's not very nice and it hurts the snakes. Snakes make wonderful pets because they do not need a big cage to live in and they don't
run all night on a wheel like a pet hamster and snakes wont even bark at the mail man.
Gosh, I guess that snakes are ok after all.
Provided to your child from:
“Iguana Don” ; interested in your
childs education. Donald L. Petty(c) 1992
