For now, I wish to focus on snakes, since they are one of my most favorite of animals. I have a pet snake, a 6 foot long red-tailed boa constrictor named "Diamond." She's great to have around and no, she doesn't eat the rodents in our house. She loves to sit in your lap, sniff around when she's curious and likes to be held.

Snakes:
Snakes once had legs, but now all they have are spurs where their legs were once located. They have a cloaca, which hides their urinary and defecation tracts and also their sex organs. The females are generally larger. They have no ears. They have an organ in the roof of their mouths called a "Jacobson's organ" that they use to smell the air. Their tongue, which most people don't like, is actually forked so they can sniff the air better. They actually taste the air and put the molecules in their Jacobson's organ. The old myth that snakes are cold-blooded needs to be eradicated. Their blood is just like ours and although they don't have the temperature controls humans and other mammals have their body temperature and blood is actually room temperature. Most snakes, because of their body temperature don't need to eat that often. They usually eat about every 5 days to 2 to 3 weeks. And if they don't eat oftener than that, they go into something like hibernation, which is called brumation. Most people don't also don't know that snakes are very prone to diseases when in captivity. They are likely to get lung diseases, colds, and lesions on their scales. One way to see if they're sick is if they do something called, "Stargazing." Where they stick their body straight up in the air and it looks as if they are gazing out the top of their cage. Another disease that most boas are prone to is a disease that is a lot like AIDS for snakes. They give it to each other and it can kill.
Below are some pictures of snakes and a brief description of them. But first, a picture of my one true love...DIAMOND!!!