From 2006….. “When Phil Peak and I first formed our partnership and began documenting and cataloguing Kentucky’s reptiles and amphibians we discovered some giant black kingsnakes. Many of them were photographed, but not measured. We eventually began to carry measuring tapes, and the big snakes disappeared accordingly! We knew what we had seen though, and figured that it was just a matter of time before we found one that...
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The Black Kingsnake Lampropeltis getula nigra in its purest form, is a beautiful snake. As the name suggests, this is basically a smooth scaled black snake with a glossy shine, and depending on the locality, it may have varying degrees of pattern dorsally with some individuals lacking pattern all together.
It has been our observations that...
The Black Kingsnake is a dietary generalist. In addition to warm blooded prey they will also feed opportunistically on lizards, frogs, reptile and bird...
Black Kingsnakes most often utilize edge habitat, commonly found under roofing tin and boards where the field meets the forest, and in transitional sites such as abandoned farms and dump sites. Kingsnakes often take up residence in the network of rodent burrows that exist under sheltering objects at these places.
Unlike the kingsnakes found...
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