| Range: |
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| Other Names: |
Splendid Kingsnake, Sonoran Kingsnake, Boundary Kingsnake, Mexican Kingsnake |
| Description: |
Adults average from 24"-36". Base color is black with yellow or white speckling on the sides. The top of the snake has thin bars making black saddles on the back. |
| Venom: |
None |
| Habitat: |
Occupies a variety of habitats including: grassland, open woodland, prairie, desert scrub, thorn thicket, cultivated fields, Chihuahuan Desert, high desert grassland, chaparral, riparian areas, and the borders of marshes and lakes. |
| Behavior: |
Nocturnal during the summer months, occasionally found out on the crawl in the spring. |
| Hibernation: |
Hibernates during the cool months. I found one in a crawlspace in April, it is likely it was overwintering there. |
| Reproduction: |
Mate in the spring, eggs are laid approximately 30 days and then hatch about 60 days after that. Hatchlings are 7"-14" long. |
| Diet: |
rodents, lizards, birds and their eggs and snakes, including rattlesnakes. |
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