Everglades rat snake (Elaphe obsoleta rossalleni) By: Chris Mattison From: A Practical Guide to Exotic Pets 1994

Samira 🤍

garter snake & rhododendron

Poptart the palmetto corn snake (Pantherophis guttatus)

Mud Snake (Farancia abacura)

Family: Colubrid Family (Colubridae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

Found mainly in rivers and swamps across much of the southeastern USA, the Mud Snake spends much of its life in the water, feeding primarily on large salamanders such as sirens and amphiumas and typically coming onto land only to bask, lay eggs or travel to other bodies of water during periods of drought. While they lack the venom that many aquatic snakes rely on to subdue prey, members of this species possess a large number of unusually long, curved teeth that aid them in catching slippery animals before swallowing them whole; when threatened they curl their bodies into tight coils and flash their striking red-striped bellies at perceived attackers, although as their teeth are made more for gripping than injuring and they lack venom, this is largely a bluff. Between October and November, when the weather in their native range becomes colder and their prey becomes scarcer, Mud Snakes enter a prolonged state of dormancy in muddy crevices or abandoned burrows, and after emerging again in the spring adults mate, with females laying clutches of over 100 eggs shortly afterwards, leaving them in wet, sheltered places where they will be kept warm and damp until they hatch roughly 60 days later.

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Image Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/30106-Farancia-abacura

Today I met a very lovely friend at the Cosumnes River Preserve!

They were very patient and didn't mind at all as a dozen ecology students got up in their face with cameras, ooh-ing and aah-ing.

Tunglr reptile owners can Isee ur pets plzzzzz

Tolkien is in full zombie mode and decided a nice bath was a good plan. Self care king 👑

[ID: Tolkien the white and dark brown california kingsnake curled up in his water bowl with his head poking out. His eyes are clouded over with blue-ish grey because he's getting ready to shed his skin]

Mexican black kingsnake

Look at this precious creature

Eastern indigo snake By: M. P. Kahl From: Natural History Magazine 1984

Tina ❤️🧡🤍

happy gotcha day to this beautiful girl🖤

Abzan finally caught up to Summer’s size at ~3 years old, but she’s also always been my most consistent and hearty eater.

Saw this cute hoggie at work today. She was a hit with my exotic-loving coworkers. ❤️

She was using her shell as a pillow 🥺