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Milksnake
(Lampropeltis triangulum)        

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This is Milkshake the milk snake.  As you can see, she is stunningly patterned with gorgeous stripes.  Milk snakes are found all across the United States, the Southern part of Canada and also Central America.  In the wild they eat pretty much everything; birds, mammals, lizards and even other snakes.  She is a very long, thin snake and she moves pretty quickly so you will need to have handled Lola or KJ first so you can keep up...

They are definitely not venomous, but they imitate the look of a very venomous snake called a Coral snake(an example of 'Batesian mimicry'). Traditionally you would say this rhyme to make sure you knew which was which..

'red touches black, venom lack
red touches yellow, kill a fellow'

You'd better double check at the beginning of the session!

Fascinating fact: They are called 'milk' snakes because farmers often found them in the cow sheds (eating the mice). This gave rise to the notion that the snakes were there to drink the cows milk...I can't imagine a snake doing that or a cow putting up with it!
  • Home
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    • Links >
      • Buy bugs
      • Hall of Fame
      • Animal websites for kids
      • Animal humour
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  • Meet the animals
    • Snakes >
      • Kenyan Sand Boa
      • Milk snake
      • Royal Python
      • Children's Python
      • Woma Python
      • Mexican Black Kingsnake
      • European blind snake
    • Lizards >
      • Crested Gecko
      • Gargoyle Gecko
      • Panther Chameleon
      • Cuban False Chameleon
      • Berber Skink
      • Long-Tailed Grass Lizard
    • Mammals >
      • African Spiny Mice
      • African Zebra Mice
    • Amphibians >
      • Tiger Salamander
      • White's Tree Frog
    • Stick insects >
      • Malaysian Green Jewels
      • Leaf Insect
      • Macleay's Spectre
      • Giant bean pods
      • Peruvian Black Beauty
      • Giant Budwings
      • Giant Spiny Stick Insect
    • Beetles >
      • Blue Death-Feigning Beetles
      • Sun beetle
    • Praying Mantis >
      • Cat-Eye Mantis
      • Giraffe Mantis
      • Wandering Violin Mantis
    • Millipedes >
      • Giant Mozambique Millipede
      • Jamaican Bumblebee Millipede
      • Zebra millipedes
      • Burmese Beauty Millipede
    • Crabs >
      • Red Apple Crab
      • Batik Crab
    • Grasshoppers >
      • Giant Hooded Katydid
      • Horse-Headed Grasshopper
    • Zebra Woodlice
    • Fossil Frazoo
    • Loan animals
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