Why aren’t the snakes growing and thriving in the forest ecosystem?

Arboreal or tree dwelling snakes possess prehensile tails, with which they grip branches as they hunt in the forest canopy. Forest snakes, which live and hunt principally in the trees, use their body muscles and ribs to easily move along branches in the forest canopy.

Explanation:

Around the world, snake populations are in decline because of habitat destruction, disease, over-harvesting, invasive species, and even climate change. These combined threats have brought some snake species ever closer to the brink of extinction.

The widespread disappearance of snakes will be one impact of climate change that some people may find it hard to regret. But as vital predators in sensitive habitats such as rice fields, their decline will have wider ecological consequence, say scientists.

the cladogram shown here shows similarities and differences among several classes of vertebrates. anatomically, the four have limb structure as their common ancestor. we might separate the mammals from the other three classes because they a) divergent; do not lay eggs b) identical; are warm-blooded c) varied; a four chambered heart d) homologous; have mammary glands