Little guy… young of the year I assume. Hope he finds a warm dry place soon.
NFR Got any Herp pictures?
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Ensitina?
I don’t know enough to confirm, but I think you are correct, and you just taught me something.
Thank you!
Cool! Do you know which subspecies?A couple of months ago, my Dumeril's Boa passed away at the ripe old age of 27. For the first time in over 35 years, my house was herp-less.
Well, that changed 2 weekends ago. Hoggy the hognose joined our clan.
This is a Western....I don't know that in the hobby they really breed much for locality specific (e.g. H nasicus vs. the Mexican H. kennerlyi, which some folks keep within the Western species as a subspecies). The vast majority in the hobby are H. nasicus. This one happens to be a color morph called "anaconda" where the patterning on the back doesn't have nearly as clean lines as the standard wild type.
The nomenclature is constantly changing (it's way worse with Pituophis) and I just can't keep up.
I used to catch Eastern's all the time in TX when they'd come up and feast on the toads who were feasting on bugs around the garden.
I used to know a guy who would faint at the sight of a snake.Saw these in Living Desert NM State Park … it’s essentially a zoo so no wive’s shrieked at the sightings
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yeah my bad on throwing wives under the snake bus.
My wife legitimately got her fear of snakes and spiders from her dad. He was a Korean War vet and ya didn’t want to mess with him.
Once when they were kids, my wife and one of her brothers thought it would be funny to throw a garter snake on their dad’s back….boy were they wrong
I guess I could say what happened, have not heard from him in years. He was in construction and had a job to do in the attic. He had a ladder up in the ceiling hole that opened to the attic. Poked his head up in the attic and said he found a pretty basket there. Well, he touched it and it moved. Record time coming down the ladder screaming like a little girl. My sympathies.... That big half native american could sure move fast!yeah my bad on throwing wives under the snake bus.
My wife legitimately got her fear of snakes and spiders from her dad. He was a Korean War vet and ya didn’t want to mess with him.
Once when they were kids, my wife and one of her brothers thought it would be funny to throw a garter snake on their dad’s back….boy were they wrong
ThomasM
corvus ossifragus
The friend and I caught one in a neighbor's pool when I was in middle school, south of B'Ham AL. We ran around the neighborhood at night all that summer catching toads to feed the snake. Fed it way too much, like a toad a day. When we released it in the fall it looked like a 2' long cigar.
Very cool video. King snakes have evolved immunity to the venoms of rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, and copperheads, but not apparently to coral snakes (see a great review here). Natural molecules in king snake blood neutralize (to varying degrees, among king snake species and likely poisonous prey snakes) components in the venom.
Steve
Damn! Imagine slowly, methodically, being swallowed alive.
Now imagine waiting until you’re 2/3 swallowed to start fighting back. WTF rattlesnake?!
the commentary on that video! 
great photos, especially that Pacific Tree Frog close-up!
