Pictures of Snakes in the New Orleans Zoo
The snake house is a nice, air-conditioned break from wandering around the Audubon Zoo, and they have a variety of snakes native to areas around the Southwestern United States. Again, all these are post-Katrina pictures - they're what you'll find in the zoo if you go there now.
An Arizona Mountain Kingsnake. It lives in the mountains and rocks of Arizona and are actually frequently used as pets. They are also called a "Pyro." They spend most of their time hiding and only come out when needed to eat, mate, etc. You can read more about them here.
A Banded Rock Rattlesnake. These are native to Arizona and New Mexico, and are highly poisonous. They hibernate for 3-5 months a year and vary in color quite a bit. You can read more about them here.
A Blacktail Rattlesnake. They are found throughout the Southwestern U.S. from Texas to New Mexico. They aren't very aggressive and aren't as quick to bite as some other rattlesnakes, but they're still poisonous. They mainly live in bushes and brush. You can read more about them here.
A Bushmaster Pit Viper. This is an extremely dangerous and venomous snake native to South America. They bite multiple times and even the bites of babies can be fatal to people. You can read more about them here.
A random coiled up snake, I didn't get its name. He's pretty much doing what all the snakes did, which was cover up to keep his picture out of the papers.
A Desert Massasauga Snake. These are small rattlesnakes that live in Texas. You can read more about them here.
A Dusky Pygmy Rattlesnake. This is from the Southeastern United States, from South Carolina to Florida. They are poisonous but generally not fatal. They mostly live in swampy, marsh type areas. You can read more about them here.
An Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake. This is a very large venomous snake that is usually about 5-6 feet long. It's also from the Southeast U.S., living anywhere from Louisiana to South Carolina. Because of their length they can be particularly dangerous, because they can strike out several feet away - although they compensate with a very loud rattle for a warning. You can read more about them here.
An Eastern Green Mamba. They are generally pretty docile around people and are sometimes kept as pets. They are native to Africa, and they mostly stick to the trees and eat birds and frogs and stuff that lives up in the branches. You can read more about them here.
An Emerald Tree Boa. They live up in the trees of the South American rainforests and hunt birds. They bite them and grab on, then constrict their bodies around them until they die and are swallowed. They also have a weird reproduction method that is sort of like an egg, but not really - the baby snakes come out in a membrane that is kind of like an egg but they can move around. You can read more about them here.
A Hopi Rattlesnake. They mainly live around Utah and northern Arizona. They are venomous and hibernate during winter. You can read more about them here.
A Lance-headed Rattlesnake. This one is native to Mexico and is active both day and night. They are venomous, and they're considered one of the more beautiful rattlesnakes and often hunted because of that reason.
A Louisiana Pine Snake. These are pretty rare in the wild nowadays because of alterations in their habitat. They were pretty rare before that, and there's not much information about them, but you can read some here.
A Red-Bellied Black Snake. This is a poisonous snake from Australia. They live in forests and are generally pretty docile, preferring to escape rather than attack. You can read more about them here.
A Rhinoceros Viper. Two, actually, moving around their cage. They get the name because they have little horn looking things sticking up from their noses. You can read more about them here.
A Scarlet Kingsnake. They live from North Carolina to Florida, and look a lot like coral snakes, though they aren't venomous. This is a benefit in the wild, as other animals will stay away because of the similarities. You can read more about them here.
A Southern Pacific Rattlesnake. This one lives in California, and they kill their prey by overdosing them with venom so that the tissue degrades, helping digestion. You can read more about them here.
A Tentacled Snake. He's in the middle and looks a lot like a tree branch. They get their name from two weird little tentacles on their head. You can read more about them here.
West African Bush Vipers. Obviously from Africa, they live in trees and bushes. You can read more about them here.
A random snake curling up.
A snake sleeping under a tree branch.
A snake, slithering around in his cage.
A snake wound around a tree branch.
A water snake.
A rattlesnake sleeping in his cage.
A snake in a cage.
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