Adult captive corn snakes will enjoy the best quality of life with a reptile terrarium of at least 20-gallons. However, the bigger the snake, the bigger their habitat should be. It’s also key to remember that snakes are not social animals, so living with another snake in the same enclos...
A modern, comprehensive guide on proper corn snake care, updated regularly to include new findings in captive reptile care and herpetology.
Besides the threat of human expansion, corn snakes do not have many natural predators. Animals that eat corn snakes include some birds of prey and the occasional carnivorous mammal. It is more likely for a corn snake to beeaten by a larger species of snake, such as a black racer or an ...
Behavior Like most other snakes, corn snakes are known to eat much larger prey. The prey size does not seem to correspond to the snake size. When they see humans they usually pull its entire body creating a wavelike links and stay in this posture until the danger is over. This is yet ...
Today How Much Do You Know? 🤔 Venomous or Not Snake Quiz There are over 3,800 different types of snakes species. Of these 3,800+ snake species over 600 have venomous fangs. How… Take the Quiz → Animal of the Day Panther About...
Colour polymor- phisms in squamates have been used as examples of adaptive evolution associated with habitat, behav- iour, reproductive strategies, ageing, immune response, and speciation8–11. We are promoting the corn snake (Pantherophis guttatus), a Colubridae species from the southestern ...
The corn snake (Pantherophis guttatus) is a new model species particularly appropriate for investigating the processes generating colours in reptiles because numerous colour and pattern mutants have been isolated in the last five decades. Using our capti
External paste of leaves is used as antidote for the poisoning caused by snake bites, datura, mercury and arsenic. Leaf extract or juice is used for treating burns, insect bites and various skin eruptions. It is also beneficial for various skin disorders like warts, corns, inflammation and boi...
An exopolysaccharide-producing novel Agrobacterium pusense strain JAS1 isolated from snake plant enhances plant growth and soil water retention Jaspreet Kaur Gaurav Mudgal Gaurav Singh Scientific Reports (2022) Plants colonizing volcanic deposits: root adaptations and effects on rhizosphere microorganisms ...
Scales from each snake were washed, dried, and analyzed for δD and δ18O at the Stable Isotope Research Facility for Environmental Research at the University of Utah. The effects of temperature on the turnover of tissues was only significant when comparing the thermoregulating group to the ...