King Snakes

Video Transcript

"What I have here now is a black Mexican king snake. He's doing a little pose for you there it looks. These guys are, in my particular, I think they're one of the most beautiful king snake colorations. They're just a pure black and they're very impressive. They get about 4-6 feet. The king snakes are called king snakes because they are known to eat other species of snakes quite frequently. In fact, I have a larger version of this particular guy over at a friend's house and he has ate 2 or 3 mates that we've tried mating him with. So it's quite common. The can eat a snake the same size as them so you always want to make sure you house king snakes separately. They tend to be, this guy is being very well behaved. We're seeing a little bit of an out of the ordinary behavior today with that corn snake being flighty and this guy being very, very relaxed for me. He's very chilled out. Usually they tend to be a little bit more flighty than this. They are colubrid just like the corn snake and the milk snake that we saw earlier. They are indigenous to the southwestern United States and South America. They come in lots of different variations of color and pattern. Everything from, they call them the California king snakes, which are a black and white. There's lavender king snakes that are a nice beautiful purple color. Lots of beautiful different colorations out there with the king snake. Like I said, generally they are a little bit more flighty than this and they like to poop on you, but this guy is just being absolutely wonderful today. You can see he's flicking his little tongue around smelling everything trying to figure out what's prey and what's predator. Again, he doesn't want to bite me. He's got no purpose to bite me as it is the last thing in his line of defense. He would much rather run from me, but a beautiful, beautiful specimen of snake and one of my personal favorite colubrids."