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  2. Desert kingsnake - Wikipedia

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    The snake's glossy dorsum is black or very dark brown colored, finely speckled with off-white or yellow. These pale flecks form dimly defined narrow vertebral crossbands, between which the intervening rectangular areas are black. Pale yellow scales may predominate along the lower sides.

  3. Anaconda - Wikipedia

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    The description of its habit was based on Andreas Cleyer, who in 1684 described a gigantic snake that crushed large animals by coiling around their bodies and crushing their bones. [8] Henry Yule in his 1886 work Hobson-Jobson , notes that the word became more popular due to a piece of fiction published in 1768 in the Scots Magazine by a ...

  4. Snake - Wikipedia

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    The movement of snakes in arboreal habitats has only recently been studied. [118] While on tree branches, snakes use several modes of locomotion depending on species and bark texture. [118] In general, snakes will use a modified form of concertina locomotion on smooth branches, but will laterally undulate if contact points are available. [118]

  5. Lampropeltis nigra - Wikipedia

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    A black kingsnake consuming an Eastern Garter Snake. Black kingsnakes occupy a wide variety of habitats and are one of the most frequently encountered species by humans in some states. Preferred habitats include abandoned farmsteads, debris piles, edges of floodplains, and thick brush around streams and swamps. [3]

  6. Green water snake - Wikipedia

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    A heavy-bodied snake, N. cyclopion is dark green, olive, or brown dorsally. Ventrally, it is yellowish on the anterior third, and the on remainder dark brown with yellow or white semicircles. [4] N. cyclopion averages 76–140 cm (30-55 inches) in total length (including tail). [9]

  7. Cemophora coccinea copei - Wikipedia

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    The northern scarlet snake is a secretive, burrowing species, preferring habitats of soft soils, often in open forested areas or developed agricultural land. They spend most of their time hidden, emerging to feed on small rodents and lizards, but they have a particular taste for reptile eggs, swallowing them whole or puncturing them and consuming the contents.

  8. Design Challenge: A Comfy Room Built Around a Snake Habitat - AOL

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    Challenge 1: A proper snake habitat. The biggest challenge was designing the snake habitat. "We had to learn quickly the equipment that would need to be included in the millwork design, such as ...

  9. Northern redbelly snake - Wikipedia

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    The northern redbelly snake lives in moist flowerbeds, gardens, and moist woodlands, such as borders between forest and wetlands. It often rests under logs and rocks near a woods or forest. [6] Redbelly snakes are known to occur in wet meadows, woodlands, and forest-meadow edge habitats. [2]