Honestly I grew up wondering if snakes ever makes love rather let me say have sex* among them.
Was actually saying, having no limbs would put a damper on it's love life, but I guess not for snakes after my study about reptiles.
When a female snake is ready to mate, she begins to release a special scent (pheromones) from skin glands on her back. As she goes about her daily routine, she leaves an odor trail as she pushes off resistance points on the ground.
If a sexually mature male catches her scent, he will follow her trail until he finds her.
The male snake begins to court the female by bumping his chin on the back of her head and crawling over her. When she is willing, she raises her tail. At that point, he wraps his tail around hers so the bottoms of their tails meet at the cloaca -- the exit point for waste and reproductive fluid.
Here Is Another Interesting Thing About Snake's
He inserts his two sex organs, the hemipenes, which then extend and release sperm. Snake sex usually takes under an hour, but it can last as long as a whole day.
Female snakes reproduce about once or twice a year; however, the methods of birth vary among species. Some snakes give birth to live young (from one to 150 at a time), while others
lay eggs (from one to 100 at a time), some even combine these methods by holding eggs internally until they hatch, and the babies are born live.
For the most part, female snakes do not sit on their eggs like a hen, but in some cases they will protect their eggs (and their young) for a few days after they leave the mother's body.
Few Things You May Know About Sexual Organs Of Reptiles
1.) Did you know that if a large group of male snakes fighting for a female, that they will not fight each other or mark territory, but they will all at the same time try to crawl on top of the female and wrap around her.
2.) Did you know that a cloaca in animal anatomy is an opening in the posterior for opening of the digestive, reproductive and urinary tracts where they excrete fluid and faeces.
In reptiles the cloaca is where reproductive activities occur.
When male snakes are not mating the hemipenis (more to come on that later) is inverted and rests in the cloaca.
3.) If a reptile owner wants to figure out the sex of their snake they do what is called ‘cloaca probing’ which is where they take a blunt probe and pass it into the snakes cloaca.
(Lolx🤣🤣 well that goes for does, who Care's having a reptile as pet)
4.) Did you know that a male snake’s cloaca will be longer and will extend further into the tail.🤦🏻♂🤦🏻♂
5.) Did you know that a females cloaca is shallow.🤦🏼♀🤦🏼♀
6.) Did you know that the hemipenis of the male snake folds in on itself, pulling into the cloaca and the tail by a retractor muscle.😮😮
7.) Did you know that am afraid of Snake's hahahahaha (yeah funny)
Source: https://animals.howstuffworks.com/snakes/snake6.htm
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