Photo Gallery: Snakes

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Photo Credit: Jacalyn Willis, 2002
A Fer-de-lance is a very venomous snake.  This one is a baby about 24 inches long and may grow to be more than six feet long.  They eat sping rats and other small mammals                                                       
Vine snakes are difficult to see because they are long and thin and colored like a vine. They eat small lizards like anoles. They grow to be about 3 feet long.

Photo Credit: Jacalyn Willis, 2002
This snake speciec from Belize also resembles a vine. They hunt carefully and slowly in vines over ponds, where they like to eat frogs.

Photo Credit: Jacalyn Willis, 2002
This snake lived inside the door of our room on BCI. He came out each evening to hunt frogs and returened in the morning to sleep inside the hollow door.

Photo Credit: Jacalyn Willis, 2002
Corn snakes are native to New Jersey, and have beautiful color patterns. They eat rats and other rodents, so they are very beneficial in farming areas. Unfortunately, their habitat has been disappearing and people have collected too many for the pet trade.

Photo Credit: Jacalyn Willis, 2002
Pine snakes have lovely camoufage patterns.  They live in the New Jersey Pine Barrens and eat rodents.  Habitat loss in the Pine Barrens and the pet trade have made this scecies numbers decline.


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