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When snakes sleep do they close their eyes2007-11-24 2:03:57Answers:

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No snakes do not close there eyes when they sleep, they have no eyelids. They do however have a ocular scale called the brille (eyecap - you can see it when your snake sheds). This brille offers some of the functions of the eyelid. It keeps the eyes moist, protects them etc. The brille is formed during the embrio stage when the upper and lower "eyelid" joins together. When the snake hatches its eyecap is fully formed and it goes through life without ever closing it's eyes.

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I think so. Well the do blink so probaly.

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no they don't. becuz they have no eyelids

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yes they have clear eyelids, you just can't see them

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No -- snakes cannot close their eyes, because do not have eyelids like mammals do. The outer covering of a snake's eye is clear, and it is part of the skin that they shed every few weeks. You can see them on the skins that my daughter's corn snakes shed -- it's a perfect little translucent inside-out, hollow snake. Very cool.

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No. Snakes do not have eyelids, they have a clear protective scale over their eye that they shed like all their other scales.

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snakes cannot close their eyelids, this is true, because they have none, they can however close their pupils completely, and do this a lot while sleeping.

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I had that same question i reaserched it and they do not have eye lides

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no

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No. Snakes cannot close their eyes.

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they have inner eye lids, so they do close them but the outer one they don't. it is weird when you look at them and you think that they are looking at you but they really sleeping. so yes they close them.

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No, snakes have no eyelids. Lizards, aside from most geckos, have eyelids and do close their eyes to sleep.

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no because snakes do not have eyelids so the just go into a dark space