But that's how it smells things. A snake collects scent particle on its tongue. The forked tongue fits into two notches in the roof of its mouth. That serves as a snake's nose. My favorite snake is Lightning.
Lightning is a baby gopher snake.
She is about a foot long and she really lives up to her name when she is nervous. When she is calm though, you can wear her as a bracelet. Gopher snakes are cool. They can flatten out their heads so that they look like rattlesnakes. They also shake their tails in dry leaves and it sounds like a rattlesnake rattling its tail.