This article was originally published on Critter Science.

The checkered keelback snake, aka Asiatic water snake, is a nonvenomous colubrid snake that hails from southern and southeastern Asia. They prefer to dwell near and in freshwater lakes, marshes, ponds, rivers, and streams. Even though they face the threats of habitat loss at the hands of residential and commercial […]

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