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[Miss_Croft]

I agree snakes probably do not have taste buds – there is no reason for a snake to have taste buds as it is a meat eating animal. Other animals used their taste buds (Taste buds are used for detecting salty, sweat, sour and the like) That been said – snakes have a very well developed sense of smell (They can smell in stereo). The flick of the forked tongue is the snake way of smelling the air – the tongue is then taken into the snakes mouth where it samples what is in the air. Much of the snake’s brain is used for this function.