Show & Tell
This juvenile “Speckled Kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula holbrooki)” from Kansas locality parentage demonstrates this species’ classic defensive pose of everting its cloaca, to exude not only musk, but blood. Yuck! Last time I checked, it was proposed that all Speckled Kingsnakes in the state of Kansas are intergrades between L.g.holbrooki and L.g.splendida.