You said, you seen kingsnakes crawl on the ground in the day, I have seen lots of them. But what does that mean?

On the way to the place you saw one or a few, you drove past thousands of other kingsnakes, why didn't you see them? You have to understand, there are millions and millions of kingsnakes, and you saw a few doing what? How representative is that? hmmmmmm lets say your saw 10, so its 10/5000000000. Or a hundred, 100/5000000000 the reality is, in your life, you most likely have been in the area of far more then 5 million, if you do not stay in your house all the time.

For instance I drove from coast to coast, many times, how many kingsnakes did I pass? I did so in june, how many active kingsnakes did I pass? How many did I see? Do you get the picture.

When you say what snakes do, you are including all kings or all individuals of the type your talking about. Not just the one you saw. Unless you say, this one kingsnake is sitting on
a log. Then that would be accurate. Consider, at the time, how many of all the kingsnakes were sitting on a log. While I am sure more are sitting
on a
log, the vast majority are not sitting on a log, but are underground, so then, kingsnakes are underground, they are underground 24/7, 365, that is, the vast majority are underground during that time you saw one on the ground.

Of course there are exceptions, and the importance of exceptions can vary and is debatable.

Consider, millions of kingsnakes breed and lay eggs every year, yet we humans only see a handfull of wild kingsnake eggs a year, in nest. In fact, by percentage, we see very very few gravid females, compared to how many are gravid. Why?

It boils down to exposure, I have experience that
allows me to understand the larger numbers, so I do not dwell on the smaller numbers. You may be the opposite.

Of course, in the east, you have a higher percentage that are on the surface(wet and cold) compared to the west(hot and dry) The percentage is still very small compared to the whole population. More to think about FR

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