Show & Tell
After noting a week-or-so ago that the female Granite Gray-banded Kingsnake, Lampropeltis alterna, above appeared to be ovulating, I introduced the more colorful of my male Leucistic Alterna. My other Leucistic males have little or no orange suffusion, so they’re essentially all-white. Note the over-sized eyes of the male Leucistic in this picture. I believe that the over-sized eyes are a collateral (?synergistic?) feature of blue-eyed-white serpents, much like the high frequency of deafness in blue-eyed white dogs, cats, and other species? So far, no evidence of marriage between these two. Stay tuned . . .