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Title: Corn Snakes


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Corn Snakes
Im cute!
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Classification
  • Kingdom Animalia
  • Phylum Chordata
  • Class Reptilia
  • Order Squamata
  • Suborder Serpentes
  • Family Colubridae
  • Genus Elaphe
  • Species Elaphe guttata

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Description
  • easy to maintain great pets
  • grow 3-5 feet in wild get up to six
  • natural color consist of red blotches outlined in
    black on orange background...
  • Depends on age of snake and region which it lives
  • On the belly has a checker board patter that is
    black and white

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Habitat
  • North America
  • temperatures 75-82 degrees Celsuis(day) 65-72
    degrees Celsuis night
  • Southern and southeastern parts of US
  • nocturnal and secretive
  • great climbers
  • wooden groves and meadows, wooded rock hillsides,
    along waterways, wooded lots, barn yards,
    abandoned houses
  • distrubed, vibrate tail and strike repeatedly

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Feeding
  • Like constrictors
  • do not eat everyday and go days or weeks without
    eating
  • overpower prey by biting for a firm grip
  • wrap coils around prey to squeeze and suffocating
    prey
  • swallows whole prey usually head first

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Reproduction/Breeding
  • Oviparous
  • breeding cycle that is affected by temperature
  • breeding season is from March to May
  • breed once per annummaturity
  • successful breedfirst hibernation shed-female
  • Male crawl over female jerking movement
  • lasts several minutes or hours
  • pregnant 4 weeks (depends on species)
  • swelling see bulging in skin
  • pre-egg laying shed

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Leave Me Alone!
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Bibliography
  • Corn Snake, Elaphe guttata.www.exotictropicals.com
    /encyclo/ reptiles/snakes/cornsnake.htm
  • Elaphe guttata (Corn Snake) Narrative.
    animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/
    elaphe/e._guttatanarrative.html
  • Breeding Corn Snakes. www.snakeshed.com/breeding.h
    tm
  • Biology Corn Snake. www.reptilecenter.com/snakes/
    elaphe_guttata_biology.htm
  • Animal Fact Sheets. www.zoo.org/educate/fact_sheet
    s/day/corn_snk.htm
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