Reptiles

Food is hard to get in the wild. You can’t be picky about your next meal. As a consequence, it’s a snake-eat-snake world. Many species of snakes are ophiophagous, meaning that they eat other baby or adult snakes. Some species like kingsnakes and king cobras even eat their own kind.   What Snakes Eat Other …

There are some mysteries within the world today that are just screaming out for an explanation. One such mystery involves the mating habits and reproductive abilities of snakes. Aside from watching all too realistic TV programs about wildlife or browsing the internet, there are few ways to obtain the answer to this question, unless, of …

Snakes grow throughout all of their lives. In order to grow, they need to shed their old skin because it will be too small to fit their new, larger bodies. Baby snakes shed more often than adults since their growth rate is faster. Adult snakes, depending on the species, shed a few times a year. …

Ringneck snakes are popular pet snakes because they are small, only getting to be about twenty inches long. In the wild, they eat a wide variety of foods, including small frogs, small toads, salamanders, small lizards, and newly born or hatched snakes. However, pet snakes mostly eat insects like earthworms, mealworms, slugs, and crickets. They …

My family and I ultimately love our pet snake. Our ball python is a gorgeous creature, and he (although we still argue about whether he is a he or a she) has a glossy reddish-pink tongue that flicks all over. We often wonder just why our python flicks its tongue. Is it smelling, tasting, or …