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Are You a Kingsnake Expert?
You may not know it, but Ty's favorite species of snake is the Eastern Kingsnake. How much do you know about this amazing animal?
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1. True or False? Pound for pound, the "Common Kingsnakes" (complex that includes Eastern, Black, Speckled, California, etc.) are the strongest constricting snakes.
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True
False
2. In the past, the Eastern Kingsnake was lumped in with other similar species to form the "Common Kingsnake". What was the Common Kingsnake's scientific name?
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Lampropeltis americanus
Lampropeltis getula
Lampropeltis holbrookii
Lampropeltis ophiophagus
3. The current scientific name for the Eastern Kingsnake is
Lampropletis getula
, with "
getula
" refers to what?
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Its diet of other snakes
Its willingness to eat anything
Its pattern being black and white like a dairy cow
Its patterning resembling to patterns in art work of African people
4. Eastern Kingsnakes usually max out around 4 feet in length, but the longest on record was how long?
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63.8 in
71.5 in
77.1 in
82.0 in
5. Eastern Kingsnakes with patterns like this one here are typically found where?
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Marion County, West Virginia
Somerset County, Maryland
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Dare County, North Carolina
6. Which of these have Eastern Kingsnakes never been recorded eating?
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Salamanders
Turtle Eggs
Quail Eggs
Other Eastern Kingsnakes
7. How many eggs do Eastern Kingsnakes lay on average?
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4-9
9-17
17-31
Kingsnakes give live birth...
8. Which Virginia county would be a bad county to look for Eastern Kingsnakes in?
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Scott County
Accomack County
Brunswick County
All of these are reasonable counties to find this species in...
9. What habitat would you expect to find an Eastern Kingsnake in?
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Near a pond in an old farm field
Near a swamp in a pine forest
Near a stream in a hardwood forest
All of these seem pretty fair to me...
10. Which of these is phylogenetically the closest related species to the Eastern Kingsnake?
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Mole Kingsnake (L. rhombomaculata)
Eastern Milksnake (L. triangulum)
Gray-banded Kingsnake (L. alterna)
Short-tailed Snake (L. extenuata) [formerly Stilosoma extenuatum]
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