![]() To cut down on lines, be sure to get your tickets in advance here. and closes at 5 p.m., with the last tickets for entry sold at 4 p.m. Since it’s summer, the Oklahoma City Zoo is open at 8 a.m. Some are particularly beautiful, like the eyelash viper, bright red spitting cobras, and a gorgeous green mamba. all boa and python species), also includes the longest snakes in the world: the reticulated python, which is native to Asia, and the South American anaconda. Erhhard said the zoo is home to a king cobra, the world’s largest venomous snake, and a reticulated python, the longest snake. ![]() While my girlfriend will be giving World Snake Day a miss, it sounds pretty awesome for anyone interested in the world of serpents. Snakes also eat snails, bugs, and gophers that would tear up the yard.” “Rodents carry a lot of diseases and the insects on rodents carry a lot of diseases. “The best thing snakes do is take down rodents,” Ehrhard says. Wings & Fangs Conservation Trust 1) Green Anaconda (Eunectus murinus) 2) Yellow Anaconda (Eunectes notaeus) 3) Darkly-Spotted Anaconda (Eunectes. And while they will attack humans if provoked, snakes are far more interested in a) escaping predators, and b) chasing after the kind of pests we’d rather do without. In truth, of the forty-six species of snakes native to Oklahoma, only seven are venomous. This is the Oklahoma City Zoo's timber rattlesnake. Just to be clear, this was not the rattlesnake we saw. ![]() If anything, they’re often being hunted by larger mammals and birds. Snakes are not the apex predators people often assume, Ehrhard says. So the fact that the rattlesnake we saw was rattling proves it didn’t want to hurt anyone. “I’ve caught probably a hundred snakes from the wild and you have to chase them down,” he says. Fear is an acceptable response, but likely not a warranted one, he says. The end.Īccording to Seamus Ehrhard, the Oklahoma City Zoo’s assistant curator of reptiles and amphibians, most of the people who hate snakes do so because they’re afraid of them. We backed off for a while to give it time to skedaddle. “I think it’s that rattlesnake,” I said, pointing at the coiled mass or reptile a few yards away.Įvery conversation for the rest of that weekend, and probably quite a few the next week, started with the story of that snake. “What’s that sound?” she asked, as we walked past the pond. Photo by Rae KarpinskiĪ few weeks ago, we ran into a rattlesnake by a pond out near Gore. See this green anaconda get its routine wellness exam at the Oklahoma City Zoo during a Facebook livestream Thursday.
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