Some soft evening lighting meant perfect conditions for getting new pictures of Nimona. As the blotches on her neck start coalescing into one solid dark sheath, and the peachy background colors get stronger on her face and tail, both sides of her parentage are getting more and more prominent and making for a very uniquely colored animal. And she’s still the curious, fairly quiet critter that her mom also is, so I have very little worry about fighting her over food responses as she grows up.

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The face of hunger incarnate…doesn’t matter that he got a half-pound chicken four days ago, Rebel still thinks he’s starving and wants to nom anything that moves. Luckily he’s tended to calm down once pulled out of the cage, but until that point…6 foot gremlin.

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Baby season has apparently begun! Unless he’s had a really slow first year, this bullsnake looks like about the right size for new hatchling; he’s also sporting some similar neck patterns to an adult that frequents the area, so maybe this is his kid.

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Rebel the bullsnake, watching over my activities as usual.
Skittish yet inquisitive and also extremely food-oriented, this makes Rebel a really oddly contradictory animal in behavior. He runs away from most attempts to be picked up, and yet at the same time has happily mistaken my hand for food and comes charging in with an “eat first, ask questions later” approach. Best when he’s on the skittish side though since he’s also the third largest snake here.

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Winter is coming to an end, meaning all the temperate reptiles get their heat turned back on and can start coming out for handling.
Nimona here is the first to get handled again; she’s a hybrid black pine x bullsnake, and got the quiet demeanor of her mother with a lot of the color of her father (though she keeps getting darker so this could rapidly change). Like a lot of my snakes, she occasionally likes trying to burrow through my hair…

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