Today on Extreme Pets we will be talking about corn snakes. These snakes have a belly that looks like-can you guess?-Corn. Want to find out more? Read on! Before we learn about the corn snake, please take a moment to pin this to your Extreme Pets board.
- Corn snakes are pretty tame, easy to care for and don't get very big.
- Corn snakes are carnivorous, and they eat small mammals, fish and sometimes toads.
- Corn snakes rarely bite.
- Corn snakes come in a variety of colors, the most common being red-orange, orange-yellow and black.
- A lot of people kill corn snakes because they mistake them for copperheads.
- Foxes, opossums, skunks, bobcats, weasels, and hawks are all predators of the corn snake.
- Corn snakes are constrictors, meaning they wrap themselves around their prey and squeeze them to their death.
- Corn snakes often visit corn fields, because mice hang out there. It's a good place to catch some dinner.
- Once corn snake moms lay their eggs, they abandon them and NEVER come back.
- Baby corn snakes get out of their eggs with a special egg tooth, so they can carve slices into the egg.
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