"Cool picture doug! Is your older brother still into snakes too?"



Actually, my brother was never into snakes. He wouldn't know a cornsnake from a Eastern king..LOL!. He just had to tolerate all the snakes that I had in our bedroom as a kid, and he was just holding the Indigo along with me there for the sake of the photo..LOL!



BTW, some very cool kings you had there as a kid too..LOL!



I had a few nice very pale yellow locality brooksi as a young kid too, as those were pretty abundant in that area back in that era.



I have been very saddened lately to see that many wild-caught floridana/brooksi specimens are extremely sickly looking and thin from that southern area as well. I have to wonder if pesticides and/or those freakin Cane Toads aren't responsible for this. Either way, it is very sad to see such a regal type of snake being reduced to a mere skeleton for whatever reason.



Cane toads are known to kill a plethora of huge predators. I have seen lots of dead snakes with Cane toads still hanging out of their mouths, etc..., and they have killed many a giant monitor in Australia, as well as tons of other animals.



MAN!, do I HATE those damn Cane Toads!. A puppy of ours was killed by one in the late 60's in Ft. Lauderdale too! That thick, milky poison they exude from those neck glands is extremely potent.



Even this gharial met its death not long after eating this Cane Toad!





~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"



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