How do snakes manage to continue living after being beheaded? (5 photos)

The ability to regenerate some creatures is widely known, inhabiting our planet. The same earthworms can grow a tail losing a body part. And some creatures go even further.





Speech about the snakes that remain after cutting off the head for several hours not only alive, but also capable of attacking the enemy or a sacrifice.

Remarkably, even the torso that has become isolated can fall under the blow.



Not everyone knows about this ability of reptiles. And often people become victims of this ignorance. A striking example is a resident of Tennessee. The man wanted to throw away the severed snake, but the head bit him. Only by a lucky chance did he survive: to save the already lost consciousness of the victim, eyewitnesses called a helicopter.

But not all headless snakebite stories have a happy ending. The Chinese chef was less fortunate: he was going to cook cobra, which was decapitated half an hour ago, but the head is still lived. And she dragged the cook behind her to the next world. The chef died before arrival ambulance.



Despite the frightening appearance for most and the insidious snake essence, herpetologists are sure that these creatures are amazing and hide many more secrets. They are able to start eating even their own tail, if will consider its smell similar to the smell of the victim. So many snakes die trapped in their own sense of smell.



Why do they stay for such a long time? viable? Experts explain this ability by the fact that snakes are cold-blooded or ectothermic creatures. And energy is wasted less than warm-blooded animals. This allows them to remain viable and active for some time even after fatal wounds.



Therefore, at the sight of even a dead headless (and already alive and even more so) snakes are best to bypass it. Don't rush to kill do not too educated citizens with defenseless snakes, but not try to examine, touch or resuscitate.