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...
As humans expand and develop Florida’s natural landscape into new homes for humans, corn snakes are losing their habitat in the Florida Keys. Climate change is also altering the snakes’ homes in unexpected ways. Corn snakes are also often taken out of the wild and bred in captivity due to...
Corn snakes are small rat snakes of North America. They live in the central and southeastern United States. Rat snakes are recognized by their red spots with black edges down the middle of the back, together with their orange to yellowish body. Their belly is marked by black and white stain...
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Squamates (lizards and snakes) exhibit a remarkable set of pigmentary and structural elements generating a broad variety of colours and colour patterns (e.g.1–7). Colour polymor- phisms in squamates have been used as examples of adaptive evolution associated with habitat, behav- iour, ...
Squamates (lizards and snakes) exhibit a remarkable set of pigmentary and structural elements generating a broad variety of colours and colour patterns (e.g.1,2,3,4,5,6,7). Colour polymorphisms in squamates have been used as examples of adaptive evolution associated with habitat, behaviour, ...
The use of natural variation in stable isotope ratios continues to be used in ecological studies without proper validation through laboratory studies. This study tested the effects of temperature, time, and turnover in the scales of juvenile corn snakes (Elaphe guttata) in a controlled, laboratory...