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Snake - San Diego Zoo Animals & Plants
S.O.S. (save our snakes): With snakes so widely distributed around the world, habitat loss and hunting for food or trade in snakeskins can have an impact on their survival. Yet when you consider how quickly rodents and rabbits reproduce, we owe a big thanks to snakes for helping control these populations.
Elusive Wonders - San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
2016年10月31日 · The San Diego Zoo has bred some of the most endangered and threatened snakes in the world, helping to build assurance populations in zoos to ensure snake species' survival and learn critical information about their natural history.
Snake - San Diego Zoo Wildlife Explorers
Snakes like meat—they eat mammals, such as mice, rats, and rabbits; as well as fish, frogs, or even other snakes! Snakes' habitats include forests, swamps, grasslands, deserts, and in both fresh and saltwater. Their long, slender bodies and lack of legs, eyelids, or ear flaps distinguish snakes from all other reptiles.
Kingsnake - San Diego Zoo Animals & Plants
Kingsnakes are one of the most widespread snakes in the US. They are ground-dwelling snakes that often kill and eat other snakes, even venomous ones, including rattlesnakes, copperheads, and cottonmouths—kingsnakes are highly resistant to their venom. Kingsnakes have a number of pattern and color variations.
Patch-nosed Snake - San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
The area supports 16 species of native snakes - more than have been found at any other site in coastal Southern California. Researchers in Population Sustainability have been observing patch-nosed snakes for many years and now have a database of 81 marked individuals in the Reserve.
Anaconda - San Diego Zoo
A member of the boa family, South America’s green anaconda is the heaviest snake in the world. Like all boas, it kills its prey by coiling its muscular body around the creature and squeezing until the animal can no longer breathe. Anacondas like to …
King Cobra - San Diego Zoo
The king cobra is the largest venomous snake in the world. Special muscles and ribs in its neck spread out to form a "hood" when the cobra feels threatened. This makes the snake look bigger than it really is and may help scare predators away.
Mang Mountain Viper - San Diego Zoo
Mang Mountain pit vipers are strikingly beautiful snakes with green scales to help them blend into their bamboo habitat. Native to China, their green and brown coloring is perfect camouflage for moving around a forest floor, and if the snakes stay still, they seem to vanish!
Reptile Walk - Fancy Digs for The San Diego Zoo's Slithering …
2013年2月21日 · The Reptile Walk, San Diego Zoo’s fancy digs for its slithering residents, consists three separate structures housing turtles, amphibians and snakes native to California – including the longest gopher snake you’re likely to have ever seen!