Meet Our Animals

Corn Snake

Elaphe guttata guttata

Name and Personal History:
Sid: He is the beautiful red one. We adopted him in 2002 from an Irish nanny of one of our students, who bought him at a pet store. He was about a year and a half old then.
We have two other Corn Snakes, Jake and Chili.

Native Habitat:
Corn Snakes can come from just about anywhere, from Miami to the Great Plains. Most of the ‘pet’ Corns were bred in captivity.

Environment:
Corn Snakes prefer habitats such as overgrown fields, forest openings, and abandoned or seldom-used buildings, where their favorite food of mice and other small rodents is abundant.

Physical Characteristics:
Corn snakes come in many beautiful colors, and are hardy and docile. Corn snakes are relatively small, rarely exceeding five feet in length. They are active feeders, tolerate a wide variety of environmental conditions.

Diet:
Hatchling corn snakes begin eating pinky mice, and progress up to adult mice once they are mature.