Due to their typically docile nature and reliable feeding habits, they can make an excellent choice for a captive snake.

Then I lay exhausted and silent, watching the captive snake with eyes as unwinking as his own.

Long-nosed snakes are not often found in the exotic pet trade as they frequently reject rodent-based diets that are most readily available for captive snakes.

After extensive research, it was found that the body condition in the free living snakes was significantly different than the body conditions of native and captive snakes.

Self-cannibalism behavior has been documented in North American rat snakes: one captive snake attempted to consume itself twice, dying in the second attempt.

We had put up a crude mosquewood fence to keep our twelve captive snakes corralled in their ruin.

Its distribution is worldwide, specifically in captive boid snakes.

Although captive snakes have reproduced annually, wild females probably reproduce every second or third year.

My voice didn't break again, so I counted that as good enough, and brandished my captive snake.

Shipping and the first six months in captivity are very stressful and often kill captive snakes.