What Do a Snake's Eyes Look Like?

Video Transcript

"What does a snake's eyes look like? Well snakes have eyes that come in all various forms of colors and shapes and sizes anything from a deep, deep, black like on some corn snakes and rat snakes to beautiful colors that meld with the camouflage and coloration of the snake almost seamlessly to where it is possible to miss the eye if glancing at the snake's head. The eyes can be slitted ventrically, slitted horizontally. They can be no slit at all and just be a large black globe. They can bug out, they can squint. There is a variety of different types, colors, sizes and shapes and all of them have their own different forms and function, some of them perhaps that we don't even understand but with most corn snakes and rat snakes and smaller colubrids the eyes tend to be a black circle. When you get into the larger boas the eyes start becoming a larger part of the coloration of the camouflage. As you'll see with the blood python and with the red tail boa, both their eyes are colored in a way that they can disappear into the head and become part of the camouflage rather than a focusing point for prey and predators."