This Albino Corn Snake never has a slow day!
The corn snake's Kingdom is Animalia. It's Phylum is Chordata and it's Class is Reptillia. Also, it's Order is Squamata and it's Family is Colubridae. Finally, it's in a group with other ratsnakes.
The corn snake is found in damper habitats such as fields, margins with bushes, deciduous forest, and bamboo forests. The Corn snakes are found from Southern New Jersey to Southern Florida and west to Louisiana. Their classroom habitat is a ten gallon tank and one big rock placed in the middle of the tank. Their tank must be kept warm or they don't eat because snakes don't eat when they get cold.
In the wild they eat fish, frogs, or small mammals and in the classroom they eat mice. Hawks, eagles, and bigger snakes eat them.
The corn snake lives alone. It lives 15 to 20 years. Breeding requires a cool winter dormancy. It takes 4 to 6 weeks and 2 months before hatching starts. They can lay up to 4 to 12 eggs. After they hatch they stay in their shell for several days before leaving it.
Certain tree trunks are too big around for the concerting type of locomotion to be applied. However, the North American corn snake has no difficulty in climbing such trees. The outer ends of each of it's belly scales are bent upward at an angle and can hold the snake against irregularities in the bark while the body is moved forward by the muscles beneath the skin. The belly scales then successively release their grip, moving forward in a series of waves.
This Snow Corn Snake is never cold!
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