🐍 Ready To Defend Himself As Soon As He Hatched ❤

*This video originally made between 2009-2011.

I answered a call for humane snake removal of a Texas Ratsnake that was in someone's swimming pool. I brought her home intending, as I always do, to hydrate and feed her before releasing the next day. When I got her home, I noticed she was gravid. She began laying eggs in the holding tank that night. I released her in a wooded area near the original location she was found, and incubated the eggs in a plastic bowl sitting atop perlite in nothing more than a warm room. I've done this many times to hatch reptile eggs and it doesn't really take meticulous meddling with temperature and humidity. It can vary and doesn't need to be consistently consistent. It just needs to be CLOSE enough for most of the time within a certain range. Not excessively hot or cold for too long. Not excessively humid or dry for too long. Reptile eggs incubating in the wild are also subject to wide intermittent swings in the weather conditions. This baby was the first to hatch, and true to the typical ratsnake he was ready to bite anyone accosting him from the first rattle out of his egg. Of this clutch, all babies hatched except one. One of them perished while attempting to pip his shell through the bottom, rather than the top, and he suffocated before he could get out. 😢 But the rest, of which I believe there were 17 survivors in total, all made it to be released in the same area their mother had come from, and they could choose to move to their own new territories from there, as they had not yet imprinted on a territory yet because they were captive hatched. There were also other reptile eggs, I believe belonging to turtles, also incubating in the same bowl at the time.

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