California Kingsnake
The striped hunter of the West
Pair Bond Durations
Transient
Brief associations lasting only for copulation with no extended pair bond
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Transient Animals
Eastern Green Mamba
Green in the leaves-fast in the trees
Central Ranges Taipan
The desert taipan few ever see
Equatorial Spitting Cobra
"Don't blink-this cobra can spit."
Blue Racer
Blue flash of the prairie
San Francisco Garter Snake
Peninsula wetlands' living ribbon
False Water Cobra
Hoods like a cobra, lives like an otter
Paradise Flying Snake
The snake that turns ribs into wings
Malayan Krait
Night-banded, nerve-silencing hunter
Desert Kingsnake
Desert's snake-eating "king"
Green Snake
The vine-colored insect hunter
Chinese Cobra
Hood up, hold back-Southern China's cobra
Woolly Rhinoceros
Shaggy titan of the mammoth steppe
Elasmosaurus
The long-necked lord of the seaway
Arctodus
Pleistocene's long-legged giant bear
Thylacoleo
Australia's blade-toothed marsupial lion
Mozambique Spitting Cobra
Spit, hood, survive.
Amethystine Python (Scrub Python)
Island giant with an amethyst glow
Woma Python
Burrow-dwelling snake-eater of the outback
Boelen's python
Velvet-black python of the highlands
Savu Python
Reticulated: the island-spanning giant
Timor python
The Lesser Sundas' slender constrictor
Reticulated python
The net-patterned giant constrictor
Children's python
Small python, big night hunter