I only have two comments about this video: 1) That wasn’t a water moccasin. You can tell by the head that it wasn’t a poisonous snake. 2) Even if it had been poisonous, it’s still a vital part of the ecosystem, and all the driver had to do is pull over and let it crawl [...]

(Read Article on PawNation) This somewhat misleading title on PawNation links to a rather interesting article on problems caused by letting exotic pets go into the wild. This is actually old news.  But it’s a really good picture. Personally, if I were a kid right now, I’d be excited about the prospect of going out [...]

He bends down to grab
A tail where I see
A rattle…

Well, this is one way to deal with a yappy little dog… This 10 foot wild python saw Patty Buntine’s Maltese terrier cross-breed, named Bindi, as food. As you can tell by the terrier-sized lump in the snake’s tummy. The dog’s owner is sad but not vindictive.  The snake gets to live, and in fact [...]

DSC_0452 Snake Devouring Fish Originally uploaded by FLYINGFEET (~Hart~) I stumbled across this on Flickr… Never seen a snake eating a goldfish before, at least not in the wild.

A friend sent me these cell phone pictures on Halloween, after running into this snake in downtown Davenport in a parking garage. I think it’s a juvenile bull snake.

Yes, you heard right.  George Orwell, author of 1984 and Animal Farm, is blogging from the great beyond. Actually, it’s the organization who runs The Orwell Prize that’s doing the blogging, publishing Orwell’s diaries exactly 70 years from the day each entry was written. And in the very first post, George describes catching a snake.

Delilah writes:  "Do you know much about snakes? We saw a skinny 2′ green one." That snake looks like what we used to call a ‘vine snake’ and they’re harmless.  It looks to be, officially, a "Rough Green Snake" (Opheodrys aestivus).  That’s my guess based upon the area where you found it, otherwise I’d eyeball [...]

I’ve heard that snakes will swallow strange things, like, oh, alligators, and I personally saw a little garter snake trying to eat a sparrow way too large for it to ever successfully swallow. Here, however, is a National Geographic article about a Australian Carpet Python who has a taste for golf balls:  Python Undergoes Golf [...]

Out lizard hunting one morning I saw a pair of very fast, thin snakes which crossed the dirt road in front of me, side by side, their heads held high off the ground. The two looked like a team, and this sent a thrill through me. I’d never seen snakes do this before. Their movements [...]