snake real coralillo

It is also called a rattrap or milk snake, since it was often found near cattle stables and the belief that it was stealing milk from cows spread all over the world. It measures between 30 centimeters and 2 meters in length, its coloration resembles the coral snake Micrurus fulvius, although the sequence of colors is different.



It usually has 2 color patterns, the first is bicolored, red and black; the other one is tricolor, red, black and yellow, or orange, or white, in these the red ones go inside 2 black lines. The head is black. The tongue is black. Its habitat is very diverse, it is found in semi-arid to humid areas, low areas, rocky mountains, forests, hills, savannas, meadows, sand dunes. This is an ophidian with a great distribution, from Canada, Mexico, Central America to South America. Its diet consists mainly of rodents, birds, eggs, amphibians, insects and even other snakes.