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Madeleine said: "We're spending time handling some of our more recent arrivals, including bearded dragon Blackadder, Rankin's dragons Tristan and Daenerys and king snake Cortez, so they will be ready to meet plenty of people throughout the year."

| Jonathan Clegg outside Kirklees Magistrates' ' Court after pleading guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to two snakes - a King Snake, top, and a Corn Snake, above

Volunteer Carolyn says her favorite station is interpreting the king snake. She portrays the king snake while the child is the hapless prey--a mouse, a bird egg, or even a rattlesnake.

A King snake should be black or chocolate colour with feint white or lemon stripes.

The other is a nonvenomous scarlet king snake. It mimics, or copies, the appearance of the eastern coral snake.

It's more orange than gold--a rough, rusty orange with a brown and yellow diamond pattern running the length of the King snake's body.

The most compelling picture in the show is California King Snake, in which a pair of hands holding the titular reptile is situated diagonally in the upper left half of the image, with dark green foliage as a slightly underexposed, nearly monochromatic blur in the background filling the rest of the frame.

The boa, a king snake, a grey-brown and several golden brown corn snakes, were among the haul.

Field observations on courtship and copulation in the eastern king snake and the four-lined rat snake.

"Well, I once had an Albino King snake called Tyson, which I swapped for a parakeet called Finlay,'' laughs Mitchell.

thirty-five years ago, Frank Gamsky fell in love with 10 acres of wild Florida jungle when he spied an eight-foot king snake glistening in the treetops.

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There are also more than 100 species of butterflies, as well as lizards and snakes (the kind of king snake found here is not poisonous, though its red, yellow and black bands mimic its poisonous relative and spook predators).

The record was a 2 1/2-foot-long king snake. So far, none of the copperheads have killed any guineas.

THICK-SKINNED Jim Todd got an American King Snake named Alice, in honour of his rock and roll hero Alice Cooper.