How do you get a snake to stick out their tongue? Move it slightly up and down and the air might seem interesting to them. Why? Snakes do their best sniffing, not with their conventional nose (though they do smell through their nostrils, too), but with a pair of organs on the roof of their mouths called the Jacobson's or vomeronasal organ. To smell through their mouths, snakes rely on tongue-flicking. This garter snake patient came in barely moving and had a puncture wound on its back. After a f