El Dorado for Snakes - Snake blog

Gongylophis colubrinus (Kenyan Sand Boa)

Gongylophis colubrinus, also commonly known as Kenyan Sand Boa of the boa species that can be found in Africa. They can grow up to 91cm at most at adult stage and they are usually heavily built with small eyes, heads and tails. Their color schemes range from yellow to orange accompanied with black splotches and their underbellies color is usually cream in color. They are usually around the semi-desert area, savannahs or rocks outcroppings. Because of their docile nature and easy to be taken care of, they are also can be made into exotic pets to have. In the wild, they would hide in shallow burrows from the intense heat and ambush their preys by constriction.

Lampropeltis getula californiae (Carlifornia Kingsnake)

Lampropeltis getula californiae, also commonly known as Carlifornia Kingsnake is also one of the non-venomous colubrid snake endemic species to the Western US and Northern Mexico. They kill their preys by constricting them and they are adept at it. Despite how they are known as Kingsnake, they are considered to be pretty small if compared to the other kind. Because of their unique pattern and ability to be tamed, they are quite popular pets to have. Their color scheme consist monochrome colors accompanied with bands or fading away bands. Despite how they are able to be kept as pets, they should not be placed together as they have cannibalistic nature which result to damage on them.

Bitis gabonica (Gaboon viper)

Bitis gabonica, also commonly known as Gaboon viper is one of the species of the venomous viper that are usually found around rainforests or savannas in the Sub-Saharan Africa. They are considered to be the heaviest weight and longest fangs among other large vipers of genus Bitis. They can grow up to whooping 205cm at most so far. Other than that, they have a rather triangle shaped head followed by narrowed neck. These snakes are also pretty unique with their feature on the noses where they have a tiny pair of horns. That aside, their color schemes are usually in grey covered in blotches black and has yellow edged hourglass markings. They are rather placid and slow moving and would rather hide and ambush their preys during the night. Despite how they are rather slow moving, their strikes are one of the fastest among the snakes.

Bothriopsis bilineata (Amazonian palm viper)

Bothriopsis bilineata, also known as Amazonian palm viper is one of the species of pitviper species that can be found in Amazon region at South America. They tend to grow up to 70cm in length at most but in rarer cases, they can sometime grow up to 123cm which is the longest in record. Aside from that, they tend to have a rather slender body and has a prehensile tail. Their color patterns usually consist of pale green accompanied with black pots or series of tan or brownish red spots and their underbellys' color is usually in yellow in color. They are usually at lower land of rain forest or shrubbery trees and nearby water area as they tend to ambush their preys.

After researching and googling out pictures of Ball Pythons a little makes me want to have one as pet.. But the living place for them seems difficult to set up since they are rather picky with temperature of their homes. Maybe one day..

Rhynchophis boulengeri (Rhinoceros ratsnake)

Rhynchophis boulengeri, also commonly known as Rhinoceros ratsnake is one of the non-venomous rat snake species that hail from Northern Vietnam to Southern China. These species of snakes is rather unique as they have a unique scaled protrusion at the front of their snout like a horn. Thus, earning part of their name; rhinoceros which also has a horn at the snout area. At adult stage, they could have grown up to 160cm at most, from tail to head. They tend to be at subtropical rainforests at around 300 to 1100 meter of elevation. When they are young, they tend to be greyish in color which then progressively turns greenish as they grow older to adulthood. In rare cases, some of them would maintain their greyish color at adult stage.

Eryx jaculus (Javelin sand boa)

Eryx jaculus, also commonly known as Javelin sand boa which is one of the snakes in the Boidae family and it is also one of the types of genus Eryx. They can be found around Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Middle East and Africa. When they are at adult stage of growth, they may be at 80cm at most in length. Their patterns varies a lot depending on the area. Moreover, they are usually in grayish, tan, brownish or sometimes reddish accompanied by darker blotches  or bar-like patterns.

Python regius (Ball Python)

Python regius, also commonly known as Ball Python which is one species of the non-venomous python in Africa. They are considered to be the smallest African pythons and they are also well known to be popular pets to keep as they come in small sizes and are often found to be docile in nature. Because of market demands for these pythons as pets, they are often bred selectively which leads to their offspring to have wider range of colors and patterns. They usually do not grow more than 182cm and females tend to be slightly bigger than males.

Ball Python curling into a ball

The reason why they are called 'Ball Python' is that they are known to curl up into a ball, hiding their heads and necks tucked in the middle of the curl when they are stressed or frightened. At this state, they can be rolled around literally.

I might be making lots of posts in a row from now on, so I hope you don't mind the spams. Also, I may also be posting about misc facts that are related to snakes of course. I would also like to thank whoever that has been visiting this dumb blog of mine!

Sistrurus catenatus (Massasauga)

Sistrurus catenatus, also commonly known as Massasauga rattlesnake is one of the species of venomous pitviper rattlesnake that are usually found around US. Despite how they look threatening, they are rather small even for at adult stage which at most, come at around 75cm long. Their color schemes are usually consist of greys or other tan ground colors, accompanying with black or brown blotches or spots down the center of their backs. When they are young, their patterns will look the best but paler compared to the older adults. That aside, their venom are specialize to distort the blood flow and prevents blood from clotting, which leads their prey to continuously bleed off once inflicted by their venom. They are usually shy and would avoid humans when they are not being threatened by them.

Fox snake

Fox snakes is a common names of the 2 North American rat snakes. They do not pose any threats to humans and because they are known to mimic a rattlesnake by shaking their end tails, humans would mistaken it with one of the venomous snakes known as massasauga rattlesnake which put them into danger of being killed off by humans. Eastern fox snake can be found uncommonly around Ontario, Michigan, Ohio and around near the lakes of Huron and Erie. In the other hand, the western fox snake are commonly found around open forests, prairies and farmlands around Michigan in the west part, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa and South Dakota. Unfortunately, the population for western fox snakes in Michigan are at threat due to their loss of habitat.

Lampropeltis triangulum (Milk Snake)

Lampropeltis triangulum, also known as Milk Snake is one of the king snake species and there are around 24 subspecies to it. These snakes can be found around southeastern Canada through most of continental US and around northen South America. They can grow up to 152cm long when they are at adult stage. They tend to have shiny and smooth scales and often come in color patterns of red-black-yellow or sometimes white-black-red bands. That aside, they tend to be confused with coral snakes which they both bear striking resemblance which may scare off predators. But unlike Coral snakes, Milk snakes are not venomous.

Pantherophis guttatus (Corn snake)

Pantherophis guttatus or also commonly known as Corn snake is one of the North American rat snake species that constricts their preys. They can be found around the southeastern and central US. They are actually pretty popular pets to have as they are usually docile in nature, least likely to bite and comes in wide variety of unique patterns and colors. That aside, their looks almost resemble one of the venomous snakes; Copperhead and are often killed by mistake. They are a great help to human as they can control the populations of rodents that could potentially damage crops or spread unwanted diseases. Their diet mainly consist of rodents but they also would consume reptiles or amphibians and bird eggs.

Coral Snake

Coral snakes are huge group of elapid snakes that can be broken down into 2 subgroup; Old World coral snakes and New World coral snakes. They are commonly known to have the most distinctive color patterns that consists of red, yellow or white and black banding, not to be confused with Milk Snakes which also have similar colour scheme but different arrangements. Their behavior depends on their types, some prefer to be buried underground or under a pile of leaves in rainforests and some are purely aquatic and would live in slow moving rivers. Like other elapid snakes, their diet consist of lizards, smaller snakes, frogs, nestling birds and rodents. Their venom tend to be really lethal to humans that can paralyzes the breathing muscles but they usually avoid humans and would only bite as a last resort.

Bungarus flaviceps (Red-headed Krait)

Bungarus flaviceps, also commonly known as Red-headed Krait is one of the largest venomous elapid snake with unique body color. Adult snakes can grow up to almost 7 feet long. They are commonly found around South East Asia, specifically; Malaysia, Thailand, Sumatra and Borneo. These snakes make rainforests in mountainous area as their habitat and rarely around where humans live. In addition, they usually hunt out during the night and they are partially aquatic as well. That aside, their main diet consist of skinks, lizards, frogs, caecilians, small mammals, snakes and snake eggs. These breed of snakes are infamous for having really lethal venom that causes serious damage to the nervous system.

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Corallus hortulanus (Amazon Tree Boa)

  Corallus hortulanus, also known as Amazon Tree Boa is one of the non-venomous boa species that can be found around South America. They can grow up to 6.5 feet at most when they are at adult age. They can come in wide variety of colors for their bodies and they can be in black, brown, or gray, to any shade of red, orange, yellow. In addition, their body patterns too come in different shapes and sizes; speckled, banded or other shapes.

Corallus hortulanus (Amazon Tree Boa)

  Despite them being all colorful, they are quite infamous for their high level of aggressiveness. Their fangs shaped almost like long needles and it would hurt a lot if bitten by them. They are night hunters and they are usually less active during the day.

Lampropeltis getula splendida (Desert Kingsnake)

Lampropeltis getula splendida, also known as Desert Kingsnake is one of a subspecies of the kingsnakes and they are usually found in Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. They are non-venomous but they are capable of powerful constrictions. In addition, they too are capable of playing dead, similar to Hognose snakes if they are facing a threat .

Lampropeltis getula splendida (Desert Kingsnake)

Size-wise, they are usually around 4 feet long as adult. They are usually black in color along with white or yellow specks around their body. Their diet consist of reptile eggs, rodents, lizards and even other smaller snakes.

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Corallus caninus (Green Tree Boa)

Corallus caninus,  also known Green Tree Boa is one of the species for non-venomous boa that are usually found in rainforest around South America. They tend to grow up to 6 feet long when they are adult. Like their name implied, they are usually green in color and there are patterns on their body that shaped something like a lightning bolts. That aside, they also have relatively large front teeth, larger than any other non venomous snakes out there. Moving on to their diet, they usually consist of small birds, lizards and frogs. Despite how they are huge in size, they have rather low metabolism rate and would eat less for certain amount of time, most likely monthly.

Heterodon (Hognose)

Heterodon or also known as Hognose is one of the snake species that is considered harmless and it comes from North Americ. It is called 'Hognose' because of their unique structure where its snout is upturned which is meant to help it to effectively digging through sandy soils. Certain type of this snake are able to dig through soils to find eggs buried within it as well. Other than that, the usual diet of it consists of lizards, insects, eggs and rodents but some types are able to eat toads as they are immune to the toxin from it. Unlike other snakes, it eats its prey without constricting or pinning them. Rather, it would heavily rely on its jaw.

Hognose playing dead

Hognose is infamous for its unique behavior when threatened. When it is being threatened, it would flatten its neck and heighten its head as if it is a cobra. It would then hisses, feign strikes, and sometimes bites but really rare. If that doesn't work, it would play dead by rolling onto its back and sometimes release foul odor and have its tongue hang out of their mouth. When the threat is gone, it would take this moment to get back on its own and flee.