#snakes

[clawmarks]

Forest floor still lifes with mushrooms, butterflies and a snake a pair, both oil on canvas - Otto Marseus van Schrieck - c.1657 - via Sotheby's

[fanotastic]

Black head, lavender albino, leopard, mojave

[illustratus]

Mars by Hans Thoma

[scoriarose]

Sometimes my enrichment ideas don't go over as well as I'd hoped. I'd seen some snakes who had a great time eating egg yolk from a glass, and I tried that with my girls. I took it out of the egg as the egg was far too big, and while at first I thought of making a hole in it I remembered how many times Sakura has tried to eat her dish. And her house. And the door to her enclosure when food touched it. Sure, wild snakes might eat eggs and regurgitate the shells just fine, but there's a lot of dangerous things wild snakes have to do that really wouldn't bring any benefit to making my girls do them.

So I broke an egg into a shallow glass they couldn't get stuck in.

Sakura was absolutely baffled by this strange object. After curiously inspecting the egg yolk, it burst in her face, and exploded a yellow mess? It was then I realized I may as well be showing her an alien as she'd never seen anything like this bizarre object before in her life.

"I found a yellow ball. I touched the yellow ball. It melted into a liquid! Why did this happen???"

And she pondered the egg throughout the day, repeatedly going over to look at it again and again. It absolutely mystified her. Perhaps she was checking to see if it would do any other strange tricks, or maybe even go back to being a solid.

She seemed equally interested in the strange barrier surrounding the yellow liquified ball.

It is best to ponder life's deep questions while looped through your favorite thinking orb.

If that fails, try caressing the forcefield itself to see if it will reveal its mysteries.

Scoria wanted absolutely nothing to do with the egg in the glass, and attempts to even show it to her only led to her fleeing from it. Both seemed relieved when the bizarre thing was gone. Ah well, perhaps they might like a boiled egg slice in a familiar food dish next time. While some snakes enjoy a treat of raw egg yolk, my girls will probably be happier not going through that excitement again any time soon.

[omg-snakes]

[kirexa]

NEW !!! SNAKE DISCOVERED

ITS CALLED THE LIMESTONE EYELASH PIT VIPER. THAT iS SO CUTE. ITS SO PRETTY

[wonderful-emoji]

[the-east-art]

And then this lovely snake mug!

[glimmerkey]

Purple, Green & Blue Plastic Jointed Wiggle Snakes - 36 Pc. | Oriental Trading

[crispysnakes]

Pele - IMG sunglow motley (Boa imperator)

[scoriarose]

Trying to get pics of your pets be like

[k-is-for-potassium]

snakes. you agree. reblog.

[omg-snakes]

[thicctails]

I've been rereading my absolute favourite Harry Potter fic lately, and I was reminded of how much I love Harry having snake friends in fanfiction. Then I began to ponder the idea of Harry having many snake friends, which progressed into Harry being adopted by snakes, which eventually evolved into this little au I have started to call the Caution: May Bite! AU, wherein little itty bitty baby Harry gets locked outside one night, and ends up meeting Nanati, a magically blessed anaconda who is a ward/service animal of an ancient Antipodean Opaleye, who, due to her blindness, could not finish her migration back to New Zealand, and so settled in England.

This Antipodean Opaleye, named Wadjet, has a particular fondness for serpents, and Nanati believes that Harry, who can speak to snakes, will be much better off with her, and so he takes Harry back to the valley where Wadjet and her various snakes live. She becomes a grandmother figure to Harry, who progressively becomes more and more wild, until he only speaks in Parseltongue, and is known more by Atiru, which was the name given to him by Wadjet.

When he is inevitably found because the Hogwarts letters will find you, hidden dragon magic or not, the Hogwarts staff have to find a way to reintegrate Harry into not only the magical world, but the human world in general.

[willowcrowned]

gonna be honest nothing has fucked with my head more than learning that the UK only has three species of snake. like what do you mean three? three species with twelve subspecies? three native species but a ton of other nonnative ones? three species technically but it's an accident of ancient taxonomy?

nope. just three