Photo 3747072, (c) Susan J. Hewitt, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Susan J. Hewitt

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What

Corn Snake (Pantherophis guttatus)

Observer

susanhewitt

Date

May 20, 2016 05:36 PM ADT

Description

Only temporarily captive. Picked up in the wild a week ago (this species is introduced and well-etablished on Nevis) by my friend and her son, because of a request from a neighbor who does not like snakes. Will be released next week.

This adult individual is about four feet long. It is extremely docile even by corn snake standards -- it did not show any signs of alarm whatsoever even when picked up in the wild.

It seems possible or perhaps even likely (?) that this may be one of two individuals that were born in the wild, found as juveniles, and kept for a year by the family as much-handled pets up until 2009, and then the two were released back into the wild after that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Young_corn_snake,_Nevis.JPG

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