2006-10-05 11:00:10 · 12 answers · asked by mysterious_gal1984 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
A wide range of reproductive modes are used by snakes. All snakes employ internal fertilization, accomplished by means of paired, forked hemipenes, which are stored inverted in the male's tail. Most snakes lay eggs, and of those most species abandon them shortly after laying; however, some species are ovoviviparous and retain the eggs within their bodies until they are almost ready to hatch. Recently, it has been confirmed that several species of snake are fully viviparous, nourishing their young through a placenta as well as a yolk sac, highly unusual among reptiles, or indeed anything else outside of placental mammals. Retention of eggs and live birth are commonly, but not exclusively, associated with cold environments, as the retention of the young within the female allows her to control their temperature more effectively than if the developing young were in external eggs.
2006-10-05 11:08:21 · answer #1 · answered by Professor Armitage 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, when a lady snake and a man snake meet, and they decide they love each other very much, the lady snake and the man snake have a "special hug" and then the lady snake becomes a mummy snake and the man snake becomes a daddy snake.
Now, the mummy snake can become a mummy in two ways. One way is they lay eggs, and another they give birth to all the little baby snakes.
2006-10-05 11:05:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Snakes are long, legless crawling reptiles, some of which are poisonous. They reproduce through eggs laid by female snakes.
2006-10-05 11:07:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some garter snakes (North American snakes analogous in niche to European "Natrix" species like our grass snakes) mate together in enormous knotted snake orgies. The males gather in the pits where the females have been hibernating and wait for them to emerge... We're talking literally thousands and thousands of snakes - an amazing sight! The other answer about the snakes' "hemipenes" was right in physical terms...
2006-10-06 03:20:00 · answer #4 · answered by Alyosha 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They mate, pretty much the same way mammals do. Some species then give birth to living young while other species lay eggs.
2006-10-05 11:04:27 · answer #5 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that the male snake will probably get the female snake hissed first!
2006-10-05 12:49:07 · answer #6 · answered by A Teesside Smart**** 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
snakes lay eggs.
2006-10-05 20:48:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have rumpy pumpy like everyone else..did you know most male snake's have two penis's
2006-10-05 11:08:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they breed, lay eggs, they hatch, & there you have a bunch of bouncing baby snakes
2006-10-05 11:09:06 · answer #9 · answered by Z-Cat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have sex, lay eggs
2006-10-05 11:09:16 · answer #10 · answered by imyagoodluckcharm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋