Natural History of Pueblan Milk Snakes

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"A Pueblan Milk Snake is found in southern Mexico and what is the most noticeable thing on this milk snake are its striking colors. Now milk snakes and some other snakes are coral snakes mimics. Coral snakes are a highly venomous snake, the member of the Elapidae family which also have cobras and crates as well some of the most venomous snakes in the world. Now these guys mimic those venomous snakes. They mimic coral snakes because a lot of animals know not to mess with snakes of those colors. The way you tell them apart is the order of the colors on their body. There is a rhyme to help you discern these two snakes. Now the rhyme goes like this. If red and yellow kill a fellow, if red touches black you are okay jack. "