Just saw a post on the popular page, “Snake moving in a straight line freak me out’. It made me realize that I have no idea how snakes move. How do snakes move when they don’t have any legs or other limbs?
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The scales on a snakes belly have a preferential grip on the ground. They function like a ratchet. Now, different snakes have different means of locomotion, but they all work basically the same way. They lift part of their body off of the surface and move it forward while the part of the body in touch with the ground tends to stay in place due to this ratchetting effect.
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