Babies,babies and more babies.
Babies,babies and more babies. , a photo by ricmcarthur on Flickr. Oh stop your ughs and yucks and eeeewwwws. Snake babies are cute and at least to herpetologists, cuddly. I'm not a herpetologist but I like them. How many heads do you see? If your a country dweller or live in a suburb with farm fields near by you have mice. Snakes eat mice. So, do you want a snake outside the house or mice inside. These are fox snakes from a recent hatch and are pencil sized. A female was caught and pit tagged for research. While in captivity she laid her eggs and they were kept and incubated to give them a better chance at survival. While out doing a turtle hatchling release the researchers let these delightful creatures go where the adult was captured. I will be posting a few more photos of the release in the future. Get over yourself they aren't yucky. Scientific stuff: Pantherophis gloydi Yellow-brown with large brown or black blotches on back that alternate with smaller blotches along ...