SciShow: Snakes Use Their Spongy Mouths to Drink

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Content of the Lesson: Snakes don’t have lips, they can't lap up water, and they don’t grab mouthfuls of water and tip their heads back to swallow, so how do they drink? Turns out, some snakes have sponge-mouths that literally soak up water! Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Jeffrey McKishen, Scott Satovsky Jr, James Knight, Sam Buck, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.1710 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13739-7_14 https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.1402720308 https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.22860 https://doi.org/10.2307/1447246 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10862729 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0094837300004310 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1993.tb02663.x https://public.wsu.edu/~kkardong/Web%20of%20KVK_06b/Publications/Drinking%20BTS95.pdf Images: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcQtM_ZJ_Zo https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cottonmouths_(12676608314).jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXPhH3TenBo https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Agkistrodon_piscivorus_piscivorus_CDC.png


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