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After the snake sheds, will it still be near the place it did?

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How long is the skin? Snakes usually shed their whole skin at once like a glove. The skin should be approximately as long as the snake it came from. read more

Snakes shed their skin by moving and crawling out of it; sort of like unpeeling a surgical glove. That is if the conditions are right (i.e humidity, the snake is healthy etc.) and the skin comes off in one piece. read more

If your mom found the shed skin in the bathroom, I suspect it’s reasonably fresh, unless the bathroom isn’t used much. Snake skin sheds tend to be quite moist immediately after being shed, then dry out and can become quite brittle. read more

The shed skin is necessarily larger, both in length and girth, than the body of the snake that shed it, since the shed has to stretch in order to be pulled off the snake. Still, the relative proportions are often fairly similar, and both length and width can be clues to snake body size and shape. read more

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