Question

What is unique about the movement of a snake​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Snakes do not have limbs like other animals. Instead, they move using their flexible body, which consists of a long spine with up to 400 ribs attached. Muscles connected to the ribs help snakes crawl, climb, and swim, and wide belly scales help them grip surfaces. ... Bigger snakes may push on both sides at the same time.

Answer 2

Answer:

The dictionary defines “snaking” as “moving or extending with the twisting motion of a snake.” This is quite an ambiguous definition if one takes into account that snakes display up to four different mechanisms (or types) of movement:

Serpentine: the most characteristic movement and the one that enables them to move at the greatest velocity. The serpent advances like a wave, through a sinusoidal movement of its body.

Concertina or accordion: the snake forms volutes or twists with its body contracting and expanding successively like a spring or accordion, moving from one anchor or impulse point to the next.

Lateral displacement or sidewinding: typical of the species that inhabit the desert (and in particular the sidewinder rattlesnake). The snake forms vertical waves to minimize the contact areas with the scorching surface and in this way it moves laterally.

Rectilinear: this mechanism has recently been unravelled and is the only one that does not fit the initial definition, since the snake crawls in a straight line with its body stretched. It is typical of the largest and more voluminous of the species as it allows them to access the narrow burrows of their potential prey.

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