Do all snakes shed their skins?
A snake sheds his skin several times during his life and shedding day is not a happy day for the snaky fellow. His old skin is very uncomfortable, and it is no easy job to wriggle out of it. While he is changing, he is quite helpless to defend himself. What’s more, he needs a little help or he may get permanerrtly stuck and perish. A baby king snake hatches from an egg and grows very fast. If he is four inches long as a youngster, he will be eight inches long when it is time to celebrate his first birthday. He may be fully grown to a length of three or four feet when he reaches his second birthday. In any case, he will be full grown before he is three. As a snake’s body gets bigger, his skin becomes too tight. A new and 1arger skin begins to grow under the old skin. When the new skin is ready, it waits tucked in loose folds while the old skin withers and dries. The snake is uncomfortable because his old skin is like a tight coat and his new skin is like wrinkled underwear. When sheddin
