The snake skin is closely connected by snake scales, wrapped around the whole body of the snake, and changed by a layer of keratin outside the skin. Although snake scales are tough and impervious, they cannot grow bigger with the growth of snakes, just like people's clothes, which need constant replacement.
So when a snake grows to a certain stage, it will shed its skin once. The process of molting is like taking off socks. The whole snake was skinned. This phenomenon will go through many times during the growth of snakes.
The living habits of snakes
Snakes are seasonal and diurnal, and belong to carnivores. They eat all kinds of animals, but they are not static. They rely on smell or vision to find food, and they peel off their skin. When they move, they crawl forward by rubbing the ground with their bellies.
Snakes mainly eat mice (frogs, birds, etc. Snakes like to live in cool, damp, inaccessible, overgrown with weeds, lush trees, holes in dead trees or piles of rocks, woodpiles, haystacks and ancient ridges, and they are rich in bait. These are the places where they live, haunt and breed. Some snakes live in water.