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Smelling

Terrestrial Gartersnake. Snakes actually smell with their tongues. They flick the tongue out and pick up particles in the air. When they retract the tongue back into their mouths, the particles are detected by what is know as the Jacobson's organ on the roof of their mouths. I took this photo at Reservation lake in the central mountains of Arizona USA

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Uploaded on December 28, 2020
Taken on September 13, 2015