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In keeping w/the locality thread below I present my locality specific Senticolis..LOL. Seriously though I can personally attest to their particular locales as I picked them up in the locale personally. The male (small) last Spring, and the female last Wed. evening. Tough to get to sit still but hopefully they'll present themselves better over the coming years. Very, very easy snakes and so different then the NA Colubrids I've kept in the past. Both took to thawed mice immediately as well!
Bill

Very cool!,...sounds like they are on a great start to thriving well in their captive environment.

Good luck with those guys!

~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

Cool Bill,

Here's my mesquite tree on "that one road" in cochise county Coachwhip.

You know where.

Nate

I just love that face.

Dang Nate, he's looking good! I was hoping another one would cross my path last week but as you know I wasn't there that long. He sure looks worth the commando raid through the thorns we went through to get him. Dude, if they had a "Coachwhip Chase" race in the Olympics you'd be the Michael Phelps of the event!
Bill

Probably resembled the herpetologist Austin Stevens when he chases a snake down, hurls himself on it, wrestles around with it for a bit, and the action is caught in "freeze-frame" action..LOL!

~Doug

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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

We saw probably the last 1/3 of that Coachwhip as it was leaving the road about 30 yds. or so in front of us. It was Nate's big "target species" so I punched it! As we got to where it had crossed I started to slow down..Nate bailed out looking very much like Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble when they were starting their car! Hit the asphalt in full stride!

Bill

LOL!!,...that's too funny, I can picture the sound of his feet paddling off like Fred Flintstone's feet do as he was jumping out of your car..LOL!

~Doug

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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

Action sequences I find somewhat ahh, dubious! LOL

Matthew

Nice snakes....and you are right in that they behave differently than other N. American Ratsnakes. To me they seem to have a certain intelligence about them that many snakes do not exhibit...when I walk in my snake room they often come out of there hiding boxes to check you out, but not in "I'm hungry way" that many snakes do. For example, while I was taking this photo, this guy seems to be turning his head and thinking "what is this all about".

Scott John Reptiles

sweet all the way around!
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Todd Hughes

>>Nice snakes....and you are right in that they behave differently than other N. American Ratsnakes. To me they seem to have a certain intelligence about them that many snakes do not exhibit...when I walk in my snake room they often come out of there hiding boxes to check you out, but not in "I'm hungry way" that many snakes do. For example, while I was taking this photo, this guy seems to be turning his head and thinking "what is this all about".
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>>Scott John Reptiles

Nice looking S. t. intermedia, John.

I agree about their intelligence, or at least awareness, and have seen my pair watching me too. They are as aware as my Chinese Beauties, without the racer-like flightiness.
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research