This article was originally published on Critter Science.

The beautiful rainbow snake, aka eel moccasin, hails from southeastern United States. These nonvenomous colubrids are arguably the most beautiful snake in North America. Even though they face the threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of wetland drainage, residential, and commercial developments; hunting; and trapping for the […]

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