Sunday, 5 October 2008

Egg- eating snake


Expando stomach-Egg-eating snakes.
Egg- eating snake, as they name says their only diet is eggs. Lucky for them, they throat and digestive tract are very elastic thus enabling them to swallow a whole egg. Egg- eating snakes have muscles present in the throat and the tract help them to force pass their stomach. Indian egg-eating snakes have a projection on their back bone which extends into the oesophagus that help in cracking the eggs. The Indian egg-eating snakes is a rare species of egg eating snakes which is found in India and countries around India like Nepal and Bangladesh.The egg eating snakes are also found in parts of Africa. The most amazing thing about these egg eating snakes is that they have no teeth instead they have teeth like teeth projection on their back projection. These snakes purely feed on eggs and only on eggs. When they are in wild they eat only during breeding season as a result they eat as much as they can and during the rainy season and then they hide somewhere and awaits for the breeding season.