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20% off (Sale price $16.00, Reg. Price $20.00) :: Choice of: Swamp Airboat Ride for One Swamp Airboat Ride for Two Swamp Airboat Ride for Four Swamp Buggy Tour for One Swamp Buggy Tour for Two Swamp Buggy Tour for FourThe purchase includes admission to a daily show and to the animal exhibits and petting zoo. For more information on animal shows and exhibits, visit their website.How Snakes Move: Legless LocomotionYoull find a number of reptiles to gaze at here. Learn some of their scaly secrets with Groupons examination of snake movement.If you lie on the ground and—without using your arms or legs—tried to make it across the room, you probably wouldnt get far. So how do snakes do it, assuming theyre not all under a warlocks spell? Effective slithering has two parts: friction and movement pattern. A snake isnt quite as smooth as it first appears. Special raised ventral scales positioned along each rib can be used to push off the ground and propel its body along inch by inch. Like tread on sneakers, scales use friction to anchor one part of the body so another part can move forward. Because of the way the scales overlap, its difficult for the snake to accidentally slip backward unless the ground surface is totally smooth.Creepy ChoreographySnakes can use this basic motion to move in a straight line, inchworm-style, but its slow. Far more often, youll find them moving in an S shape. In water, this pattern maximizes speed by pushing more water behind the snake with each wriggle. On land, it lets the snake use many points of its body at once to push off. When climbing, snakes use their bodies almost like springs. They bunch up into tight, grippy curves and then launch themselves up along the tree or pant leg theyre ascending to repeat the process.Bonus Points While the structure of snakes bodies may appear to be extremely repetitive, their muscles are actually more highly specialized than those of any other animal. Thats what gives them such incredible flexibility. Some snakes can move in even more dramatic ways—cobras stretch out their neck ribs to form thei
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