Danger A taipan is hungry It looks around It flicks its tongue in and out smelling for prey There It sees a rat In a flash the snake races after the rat The rat hides in a crack in the dry earth The snake corners the rat It is trapped The taipan flattens its head It waves its tail back and forth Then it strikes 4
5 A hungry taipan uses its tongue to find a meal
How will the snake’s tongue help to find prey Q 6 Taipans follow their injured prey They will eat it after it dies
The taipan bites the rat once twice three times It sinks its fangs into the prey Each fang is 0 5 inch 13 mm long The fangs send venom a kind of poison into the wound The taipan lets go The rat limps away The snake will use its tongue to find the dead rat A The snake flicks its tongue in and out A special organ in its mouth picks up odors in the air 7
