What does a snake drink?

According to Cundall, snakes have a different system to drink water, which involves the skin folds which function like tiny tubes in a sponge, drawing water into the snake’s mouth through capillary action. The snakes muscle’s action then squeezes the water down its gut. Snakes seldom actually drink, so it is believed. read more

And snakes can’t tip their heads back to scoop in water like humans do. Instead, he says, the skin folds work like tiny tubes in a sponge, drawing water into the mouth through capillary action. Muscle action then squeezes the water down into the snake’s gut. Kurt Schwenk at the University of Connecticut in Storrs is convinced. read more