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Northern Water Snake - Coggle Diagram
Northern Water Snake
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Cold-blooded
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Cold-blooded animals like the northern water snake have to work a lot harder to control their body temperature. That is because their temperature changes with their environment.
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Old skin, new skin
When a snake outgrows its skin, it removes it in a process called molting or shedding.
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Snakes are always growing, as a snake’s body grows bigger, its tightly scaled skin does not.
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Baby water snakes
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After their first winter, these snakes can grow fast.
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Lifespan
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Some large northern American rattlesnakes can live for many years and may shed their skin 75 times in their lives.
Hunting
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They swim through the water. Looking into clumps of plants, and under rocks.
Defense
If captured, the snake will flatten its head, and body and strike out and bite over and over again.
If biting or hiding does not get rid of the predator, the last thing these snakes will do is release a foul-smelling musk and poop on the predator.
If a northern water snake is unable to escape from a predator, it will fight aggressively.