Show and Tell 09/12/13

• Pawpaw fruit

 

 

• Black rat snake
• today is the snake's last visit
• the snake will be released back on Jekyll Island
• females have a shorter tail section than the males
• swallow food whole
• jaw comes apart; unhinges
• has notches under chin 
• expansion joints where the jaw can spread
• stretch ligaments to larger than himself
• non-venomous snakes
• double scales on tail underside
• one large scale before cloacal opening
• gets to be 7 feet long
• about 3 years old
• grows a foot a year

• 5 lined skink
• have ears
• snakes do not
• eats grasshoppers and crickets
• will not eat bees 

• Feathers
• crow, cardinal, crow

• 3 flicker

• Brown snake

• Chinese mantid

• 2 male cicadas

• 2 frogs