Water Sipping Snake Is Surprisingly Cute

It isn’t often one finds occasion to use the words “snake” and “cute” in the same sentence, yet we can’t help but utter an “Awww…” over Bacon Bit, a Western Hognose Snake, sidling up to a bowl to sip some water. According to the description at YouTube: Snakes don’t lap water like a dog. It’s thought that some use capillary action to draw water in via grooves in the scales lining the mouth. Bacon Bit appears to gulp! What we’d really like to know, though, is how one comes to name a snake Bacon Bit.

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