How do snakes eat things that are bigger than them?

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their jaw unhinges so they can pretty much open their mouths as wide as they need to in order to get the larger creature inside of them. their body also stretches as the creature passes through and becomes digested.

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They open their wide mouth and swallow it. That's how.

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Snakes don't have any bones in their body allowing them to swallow things much bigger than they are. Basically "stretching" their own body around the bigger prey.

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for one snakes DO have bones they have a backbone, ribs, and jawbones

the way they eat pray larger then them is they at kill it. which is why they constrict to suffocate their food... and they have larger scales on their belly that is very sensitive that can tell when the pray is no longer breathing or pumping blood

then the unaligned their jaw which is when they place their mouth around the pray... their jaws can unaline... that way they can stretch their mouth out very big... and the under part of their jaw they don't have a few scales so it can expand further

and with their body it can stretch up to 3 time bigger then the snakes size

that would be how they eat pray larger then them

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They can stretch alot. And also they can un hinge there jaw bones so they can open there mouth at 180 almost And they can also breath while swallowing big prey

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They actually dislocate their jaws from each other at the back, that's why they can take stuff larger than their heads.

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When a snake flicks its tongue, it is gathering odor particles for transfer to two fluid-filled sacs at the roof of the mouth - Jacobson's organs - that lead to a second, smaller olfactory chamber. The tongue is used only to assist in this process! Hope it will help!