2. All about snakes

3. Introduction What slithers but isn’t a snail? What eats a lot but isn’t a whale? It’s a snake! Snakes are very interesting creatures you can learn about snakes if you read this book.

4. Inside a snake  Snakes lie in hot places that’s because they are cold blooded.  A snake is as warm as the environment it’s in.  A snakes nose is on it’s head this allows them to breathe and smell even when they are swimming.

5. What’s for lunch?  Like a lot of snakes snakes are meat eaters or a carnivore.  Snakes can eat big things about the size of a deer.  Snakes hunt at night. A snake hides in the water and waits until an animal comes near it the snake grabs it very fast and eats it.

6. Young Snakes  A newborn snake is about 2 feet (0.6 meter) long  Young snakes eat fish, frogs and small rodents.  Male and female snakes mate in the spring.

7. Home sweet home  Snakes live in warm and wet places.  Snakes always live near wet places.  Because they live near wet places they are sometimes called water boa’s.

8. Source  Name of the book: Anacondas  Author: Joanne Mattern