Arrin Bowman had his mom Jennifer to bring their Burmese Python to his class for a visit.
The students enjoyed holding and learning all about 'Squashy'. He eats mice and enjoys a warm place as much as the next guy!
Pythons are constrictors, therefore they don't have fangs and they are non-venomous. They have back-curving teeth which seize the animal and don't allow them to escape. Because the snake's body is long and thin, the organs are long and thin also. Snakes usually only have one thin lung. However, "pythons have two lungs" - one of which is considerably smaller than the other. They lack eyelids but they do have a thin epidermal membrane covering the eyes to protect them. They have "supraorbital bones on the sides of the skull. The pre-maxillary bone generally bears teeth. They have small heat pits, or holes, in their upper lip which allows them to "detect heat radiations" that are in the air from animals that are close by. They also have two rows of tail scales.
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this was the coolest snake ever i even held it i could not believe it
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