Houdini

Current non-opossum ambassador

Houdini

Corn snake (Pantherophis guttatus)

DOB: 04/2013

Houdini is an amelanistic corn snake. Amelanistic means that it doesn’t have any black pigmentation. Corn snakes are a species of rat snake native to Virginia and the southeastern United States. They are named for their presence near grain stores where they eat the mice that come to eat the harvested corn!

Likes: Mice, rats, escaping

Dislikes: A secure enclosure

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