i regret to inform you i've been killed by a cober

Madrean Mountain Kingsnake (Lampropeltis knoblochi), family Colubridae, Cochise County, Arizona, USA

Coral snake mimic.

photograph by Mitchell Hawkins

I drove over to East Bay Vivarium today and saw this Florida Kingsnake being…a kingsnake. That’s his glove now.

new picture of my boy stephen

Just realized I haven’t posted Wednesday in almost 2 years 🙃 so here she is!

hamburger

Baby snek

The MBK has been one of my dream snakes. Can’t wait until he’s all grown up hehe

I’m not super sure about the gender yet, the tail is long but it kinda tapers immediately so can’t rly tell. I’ll have to wait until he’s a bit older but for now it’s a probable male XD

Zora + kingsnake…

California Kingsnake (Lampropeltis californiae)

Family: Colubrid Family (Colubridae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

Native to the southwestern USA and northwestern Mexico, the California Kingsnake gets its "kingly" name from its unusual diet; members of this species are ophiophagus, meaning that, while they do feed on rodents, frogs and small birds, their diet is made up primarily of other snakes, including numerous venomous species such as rattlesnakes (the venom of which, through means that are not well understood, California Kingsnakes exhibit extreme resistance to.) Although they exhibit an impressive resistance to snake venom members of this species are not venomous themselves (although the striking red-and-yellow bands that run down the bodies of most individuals may be a form of mimicry that allows them to pass for a highly venomous coral snake to deter predators, though this mimicry is notably less convincing than that seen in many related Lampropeltis species such as the Milk Snake,) and instead subdue their prey through constriction, exerting considerably more force than most similarly-sized snakes in what is believed to be an adaptation that aids them in hunting reptiles (constrictor snakes kill their prey by starving the brain and other vital organs of oxygen, but as reptiles use less oxygen than mammals and birds due to their lower metabolic rates exerting greater force is necessary to do so effectively.) Able to survive in a wide range of habitats owing to their ability to enter a dormant state when faced with adverse conditions, California Kingsnakes brumate beneath rocks, logs or within abandoned burrows during the winter and breed shortly after emerging in the late spring, with females laying clutches of 10-20 leathery white eggs among leaf litter or beneath rotting wood throughout the summer.

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Image Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/146199-Lampropeltis-californiae

Squishy pink lady hours

[id: Taro, the pink and cream albino California kingsnake, resting her head/neck on her water bowl as she looks around, flicking her tongue to smell the air]

the worms..

Leonis kingsnake.

California Kingsnake (Lampropeltis californiae), family Colubridae, California, USA

photograph by Kaiyuan Chen

Mexican black kingsnake

[first form]

xicalampros and vacuudon

xicalcoatl was said to be a black and very shiny snake, so i based them on Lampropeltis getula nigrita (altough iNaturalist says its now Lampropeltis splendida ssp. nigrita ) also known as the mexican kingsnake, endemic to Mexico and the US, they have no venom as they mainly feed on other snakes and smaller animals by constricting them (remember that) because of this they tend to be kept as pets. although i gave them yellow scales like other Lampropeltis species have these kingsnakes dont have them, and even have a bit of a blue reflection instead.

[iNaturalist] [source]

xohuiwing has turned into a whale shark, some of the largest sharks in the world named after whales because it filter feeds like them, its considered as endangered in mexico and there are even protected ares for them in the south of the country. swiming with them is a popular hobby for tourist and people even have dates and locations marked to do this, this can become a problem when unauthorized people try to do it which could result in harm for either the whales or the people swimming

[whale shark day] [places to swim with whale sharks]

Adrastea drinking water 💧