California Kingsnake | 台北市立動物園資訊網

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California kingsnakes are found throughout most of California, neighboring states, and northern Mexico. They thrive in many habitat types, from marshes and grasslands to forest, scrub, and desert.

California kingsnakes do most of their hunting and cruising at dawn or dusk. During the day, they tend to rest under leaf litter or other cover or bask in the sun, depending on whether they need to stay cool or warm up. Like other reptiles, they are cold-blooded and rely on the environment to help regulate their body temperature. During the winter, these snakes burrow into crevices or under rocks, logs, or other cover and brumate.

California kingsnakes are powerful constrictors that prey upon a wide variety of animals, including other snakes, rodents and other small mammals, lizards, frogs, salamanders, birds, and large invertebrates. They also eat lizard eggs, snake eggs, and bird eggs.

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