and where do each of them live?
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No, they are actually pretty timid, shy creatures. My niece has a male corn snake as a pet. He is a beautiful snake with a lovely pattern of gold and orange and rust scales. She feeds him thawed, frozen mice. It's not recommended to feed them live mice as the live ones may bite and scratch and hurt the snake! She started him out on pinkies (baby mice) when he was young, but now that he is fully grown he can eat small adults. When she first got him he had a tank with some pebbles in the bottom and a log to hide in and she kept peering in to look at him, even when he was hiding in the log. He got annoyed with always being spied on, so he piled pebbles up in front of the opening of the log so that she couldn't look in and see him anymore! After that she learned to leave him alone more often. She handles him frequently, along with her two small sons and they don't ever get bitten unless they startle him. He does get cranky when he's shedding though. She's learned that it's best just to let him be at that time and not let the boys handle him. I believe they are native to the prairies (thus the gold and rust colored scales) and are called corn snakes because they are often found hiding in corn fields planted in those areas.
not at all in fact these snakes are relatively calm snakes and they live in grassy areas looking for grasshappers and other insects.
They can be, but generally they're not. My corn is nippy, but he isn't out for my blood. ^^; They come from out west in the US (don't know if they have some in other countries or not)
Now kingsnakes have about the same temperment, but they're aggressive towards other snakes. (They'll eat 'em! *.*)
I've delt with a few and never found any to be aggressive.
and yes i almost forgot king snakes will eat other snakes so don't put them together.
we use them in AZ on the ranch we let them go because they eat the rattlers and we don't loose livestock.
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