One of our corn snakes, Charlie.
Corn snakes can live in corn fields or garbage areas almost anywhere where you would find small rodents or mice. There geographic range is southeastern United States in Louisiana, Carolina, Florida,Virginia, and New Jersey. In the classroom they live in a medium glass cage.
In the classroom habitat they will eat live mice. In the wild they will eat frogs, small lizards, mice, and other small animals. Their only enemies are birds of prey.
The corn snake lives alone and is known to live 21 years in captivity. Eggs of the corn snake are left in rotting logs or under leaves. After the eggs are laid, the mother leaves the babies to hatch by themselves.
Corn snakes have a Jacobsan organ that helps them pick up smells and chemical particles. Snakes can hear, but just not air born sounds, but sounds that travel through the floor or matter they can somewhat hear.