A lot of animals are named after things they sometimes eat — anteaters eat ants, dung beetles feed on you-know-what. Then we have the milk snake, a vibrant type of North American serpent with no ...

The non-venomous snake was striking out at customers at the Costcutter in the city's Townhill area over the weekend. A local snake expert and his wife had to be called to extricate the 3.5ft milk ...

Upon inspection, officials discovered cotton pouches hidden inside chocolate boxes and old clothes, containing a range of non-native snake species. ... 3 albino snakes. 2 Honduran milk snakes.

Length: On the average, red milk snakes range from 21 to 28 inches in length. Diet: Red milk snakes feed on mice, lizards and small snakes. They kill prey by constriction.

A milkman discovered an aptly-named milk snake on a doorstep as he made his morning deliveries in Lancashire. The three-foot reptile was discovered eating a blackbird on the step in Rishton on ...

This tradition is done to please the snake god. According to Khargone’s snake expert Mahadev Patel, milk is not the natural food of snakes. They mainly feed on rats, frogs and other small creatures.

Snake rescuer Vishnu adds charmers deprive the snake of water for some days before Naag Panchami. "It consumes milk only because it's thirsty. In fact, out of thirst it will lap up even tea or cola.

The passenger’s baggage had cotton bags stuffed with 16 live snakes, including two Kenyan sand boas, five rhinoceros rat ...

The tale of a snake clinging to cows' legs to drink milk is a persistent myth in rural India, particularly involving the Indian rat snake. Despite its popularity, herpetologists debunk the story ...

But this is an eastern milk snake. Jesse Rothacker holding an eastern milk snake. It’s nonvenomous, generally eats rodents and other snakes, and is mostly harmless to people, Rothacker said.

Snakes are everywhere in Alabama from the Gulf Coast to the mountains in North Alabama. They range is size from the thickness of a pencil lead to lengths approaching eight feet.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Of the six species of snakes found on Staten Island, only the eastern milk snake dispatches its prey by constriction. The other five native snakes use the simple grab-and ...