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Just for fun, one of my favorites, Heterodon platirhinos.
Very highly variable, im my area I've seen them all black, bright orange (like cheetos), and tan. This one has a lot of yellow.
These guys are real neat, as a defensive bluff, they will spread their neck out in a cobra-like fasion (although they hold their head down when doing it)and hiss, or else they will roll on their back, stick out their tounge,and play dead (they get over that second one in captivity). The puffed-out head trick gets alot of them killed by nitwits who mistake them for venomous snakes (not that I condone killing venomous ones either). Yes, they're rear fanged venomous, but you'd pretty much have to stick you finger down their throat to get envenomated, and even then the effects are negligable.
Generally, they don't make great pets because this species feeds primarily on toads in the wild, but we've successfully gotten this one to take pinkie mice so it's doing great.
Wade
Very highly variable, im my area I've seen them all black, bright orange (like cheetos), and tan. This one has a lot of yellow.
These guys are real neat, as a defensive bluff, they will spread their neck out in a cobra-like fasion (although they hold their head down when doing it)and hiss, or else they will roll on their back, stick out their tounge,and play dead (they get over that second one in captivity). The puffed-out head trick gets alot of them killed by nitwits who mistake them for venomous snakes (not that I condone killing venomous ones either). Yes, they're rear fanged venomous, but you'd pretty much have to stick you finger down their throat to get envenomated, and even then the effects are negligable.
Generally, they don't make great pets because this species feeds primarily on toads in the wild, but we've successfully gotten this one to take pinkie mice so it's doing great.
Wade