Speckled Kingsnake
Speckles, strength, and snake-eating swagger
Conservation Threats
Agricultural Expansion
Conversion of natural habitats to farmland and ranching operations
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Agricultural Expansion Animals
Banded Krait
Bold bands, silent danger
Forest Cobra
Big cobra of Africa's deep forests
Plains Hognose Snake
All bluff, no bite.
California Kingsnake
The striped hunter of the West
Eastern Green Mamba
Green in the leaves-fast in the trees
Equatorial Spitting Cobra
"Don't blink-this cobra can spit."
Blue Racer
Blue flash of the prairie
Philippine Cobra
Look, don't stare-spitting cobra!
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
Western Green Mamba
Green lightning in the West African trees
Desert Kingsnake
Desert's snake-eating "king"
Green Snake
The vine-colored insect hunter
Chinese Cobra
Hood up, hold back-Southern China's cobra
Cobras
Hood up: the true cobras
Archaeotherium
Big jaws, Oligocene badlands boss
Grey Heron
Still as stone, fast as a spear
Night Heron
Night hunter with a black-crowned cap
Killdeer
The plover that out-acts predators
Arabian Cobra
Arabia's hooded desert sentinel
Mozambique Spitting Cobra
Spit, hood, survive.