Unhinged Jaw Snake

The snake also has a dark band of color extending from the eye to the angle of the mouth as well as another line vertically between the eye and mouth.

Luna come and play theme song. Prev next jaws. A snakes jaws are composed of sections two in the lower jaw and six in the upper jaw connected by ligaments. This diagram shows the inner workings of a snakes jaw.

Notice the quadrate bone and how it behaves like a hinge allowing the snake to open its jaws to such a wide angle. Ever wondered how a snake can swallow something larger than its head. A broken fractured or dislocated jaw can create problems with eating and.

The unhinging of the jaw joint is known as a dislocation. In this video i explain how snakes swallow big things. At one point my kingsnake struck the glass and his jaw was unhinged for about a week it looked funny even for a little longer but every time i fed him it actually looked a bit better i dont know what will happen but in my case my snake healed 90 all.

The jaws of the snakes are not fused together. In august 2013 scientists documented a boa constrictor eating a howler monkeyin march 2017 an african rock python swallowed a spotted hyenathat same month a 23 foot long burmese python killed and consumed a farmer wholeand a woman in indonesia befell the same fate in june 2018. That would be like you swallowing a whole watermelon.

Look out rabbits ground squirrels mice. A snake eating a rat. One myth that wed like to clear up regarding a snakes jaw bones is that a snakes jaw can actually come unhinged or detached.

Believe it or not because of their unhinged jaw snakes can swallow animals up to five times the diameter of their heads. This is not true. You dont have to look far to find stories about serpents biting off more than they can chew.

That means that unlike our jaws snake jaws are not connected at the back of their mouths. A snakes jaw is rigged with tendons muscles and ligaments allowing snakes to swallow large animals.