Question

How do snakes eat?
A) Chew their food
B) Swallow their food
C) They first digest and then swallow their food
D) None of these

Answer 1

Hint:Snakes are the carnivorous animals that belong to the class Reptilia. They have a distinct head and a tail and presence of scales are seen all throughout the body.

Complete answer:
Snakes regularly eat larger prey than the size of their own. It’s all because of their flexible muscles, ligament, and very freely moving skulls that help them intake large-sized food.

Option A: Snakes do not have the right kind of teeth to chew their food so they capture the prey whole. Therefore, this is an incorrect option.
Option B: Snakes do not have the right kind of teeth to chew their food so they capture the prey whole. Their jaw is structured in such a way that it allows the mouth to open wider than their own body in order to swallow their prey whole. Swallowing is done very slowly with the lower jaw’s two mandibles to move forward alternately over the prey. Therefore, this is the correct option.
Option C: As the snakes swallow their food, digestion begins in the stomach and is very rapid. It’s so rapid that the first part of the prey is partly digested before the hind-parts have been swallowed. Therefore, this is an incorrect option.
Option D: Snakes do not have the right kind of teeth to chew their food and they capture the prey whole and swallow it. Therefore, this is an incorrect option.

Thus, option (B) Swallow their food is correct.

Note:It is to be noted that the muscles of the snake body and their hook-shaped teeth help in pushing the food toward the stomach. In this way, it helps them swallow large-sized food very easily.