Honduran Milk Snake
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The Honduran milk snake’s base color is red with distinct rings or bands of black and yellow. In some cases the yellow is actually a deep orange color and the animal in question is referred to as a tangerine phase. The Honduran milk snake is one of the larger subspecies of milk snake, attaining a length of 48 inches in the wild and some captive specimens reaching a length of 5 feet. They have a resemblance to the coral snake and this similarity in color, known as Batesian mimicry, helps protect the snake from potential predators
The Honduran milk snake uses constriction to kill its prey and tends to be opportunistic when it comes to its diet; they eat other snakes (ophiophagy), including venomous snakes, lizards, rodents, birds and eggs. In captivity they are kept successfully on a diet of mice and rats
They become sexually mature at 18 months. The females are oviparous, laying an average of 3–18 eggs per clutch in early June. The eggs incubate for approximately two months, and hatch in August or September. The hatchlings are 8 inches long and darker in color than their parents when they emerge from the eggs.