This Wildlife Wednesday we are featuring our resident Red Rat Snake. This guy in particular has a permanent stay at the Nature Center due to a degenerative nerve disease that causes him to twitch.
Rat Snakes are non-venomous, constrictor snakes. They also happen to be very skilled climbers, to the point where they have been known to scale brick walls! This helps them catch prey like lizards, small mammals, and hatchlings.
Rat Snakes are popular in the pet trade and have been bred in many different colors and patterns.
I saw a post a few days ago that inspired this, but I couldn’t find it again so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Anyways, daily reminder to love your body and boop your body dimples/cellulite dimples while you’re at it.