#elaphe

[snototter]

A Grabowsky's beauty ratsnake (Elaphe taeniura grabowskyi) in North Sumatra, Indonesia

by Rupert Grassby-Lewis

[herpsandbirds]

Mocquard’s Beauty Snake (Elaphe taeniura mocquardi), family Colubridae, Guangxi, China

Subspecies of the Beauty Rat Snake aka Cave Racer.

photograph by Rupert GL

[invertinsight]

russian ratsnake

[a-book-of-creatures]

Wake up babes new snake just dropped, Elaphe druzei!

A new, rare, small-ranged, and endangered mountain snake of the genus Elaphe from the Southern Levant

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-30878-4.pdf

[scalygems]

Meet Estela! ✨️💜🪐

She is a cave-dwelling rat snake whose job it is to gather & repair all of the burned-out stars in the night sky~☆ She's shy and easily startled, but takes her job very seriously! Estela emerges at sunset, when the sky is full of oranges and pinks so that she can blend in while she gathers all of the stars that need repairs. She returns them to the sky all shiny & new at sunrise~ 🌟🌌

I'd wanted to make a lil mascot for my shop & art accounts for SO long, and I could not be happier with this little friend that I've created~!! 🥺💜 I'm super eager to make more artwork of her, as well as some cute comic strips and hopefully merch as well 🥰🙏 I hope you all love her as much as I do!! ♡♡♡

[spiceofmorning]

They’re on the way to the beach!!

[bufomancer]

An interesting and short read! Check out this PDF of an experiment by Roman Muryn (known in the hobby for his work with reptile lighting as well as being one of the longest tenured admins of Advancing Herpetological Husbandry) wherein a pair of rat snakes (Elaphe bimaculata) were offered a typical breeder style rack tub inside of a furnished 8x2x2 terrarium and their behavior was observed over 30 days.

Vivarium and RUB experiment V05.pdf

Vivarium and RUB experiment V05.pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AiOWqIj4PLed-RIHDemneJ0l6ok78dTz/view?usp=sharing

[nagayna-snake]

23.02.2015 год.

8 месяцев.

Нагайна только-только приехала из зоомагазина в своё новый дом и немного шокирована вниманием к её персоне <3