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Corn Snake
Pantherophis guttatus
Pantherophis guttatus is a slender, non-venomous constrictor of the southeastern United States, and its name almost certainly comes from the bold black-and-white checkerboard on its belly, which looks like Indian corn — with a secondary nod to the fact that it was so often found…
Did you know?
- Corn snakes can vibrate their tails rapidly against dry leaves to mimic the sound of a rattlesnake, deterring potential predators.
- Corn snakes are among the very few snakes for which detailed pedigrees exist across many generations, and combining two simple recessive genes is how breeders produced the pure white "snow" morph. They readily enter buildings and can climb sheer brickwork by wedging into mortar lines. Hatchlings emerge at about 25 cm and eat pinky mice or small lizards, while adults reach 1.2-1.8 m. The tail-buzzing bluff is shared with several harmless North American colubrids and is a good example of a mimicry that costs the mimic nothing to perform.
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