New York snakes are known to be sneaky animals and very intelligent. They make sure they do not make any noise when wanting to attack their prey. This is a major technique that they use and are very known for. Other techniques snakes contain are their ability to inject venom inside their attacker from one bite. The venom within them is very poisonous and can kill their attacker within seconds. Their body features may come to their advantage as well when it comes to an attacker since they only have a long body. They crawl when getting from place to place which helps them stay quite when they are planning an attack.



Other features snakes have within their body are very different than what other normal Rochester animals have. As it is seen, they do not have ears, nose and no eyelids. This would bring rise to many questions among people about the way snakes can see, blink and hear. Since snakes do not have any eyelids, they cannot blink at all. The only cover their eye has is the single clear eye scale that it contains. The eye scale can act similar to an eyelid, especially since the eye scale can actually protect their eyes from injuries. They can also prevent the snake’s eye from drying out.

Do snakes even sleep at all? People tend to ask this question many times especially since they now know that Rochester snakes do not have eyelids, therefore how do they close their eyes and sleep? This is why snakes will definitely sleep with their eyes open. This may seem weird but it does not bother them at all. Due to this reason, snakes tend to have very bad eye sight and cannot see very clear when an animal is near. As a result, when there are too many animals or people, snakes become hesitant about attacking. However they can feel the heat of the attacker and feel their movement, which helps them the most when they are looking for prey.

Snakes are known to shed their skin many times throughout their lifetime. Since the eye scale is part of their scaly skin, they need to shed that as well. When this occurs, the snake’s eye becomes very gloomy as well as cloudy. At this time, the snake’s sight will become even worse than it was on normal days. In order to make sure all the skin has been shed, they need to rub their entire body around an objective that is able to scratch the skin off. When their eyes become in contact with this objective, it tends to be a hard aspect for the animal since it is in between shifting skins.

Snakes may seem as very smart and strong animals, but they do lack many features that normal animals do obtain. This however does not stop them from living their life to the way they should be doing. In order to smell, snakes could actually use their tongues to know when any animal or human is near.

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