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 wide, overlapping scales on their cute lil snake tums. They allow the snake to get traction wherever they’re crawling, and they use diagonal motion (slithering) to scoot along. Fittingly, the scales are referred to as ‘scutes’.
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