Shannon, my wife, holds up the shed skins of the rat snake that lives in our barn. He's been there, and growing, for the last eight years. I've seen him on the rafters, in trees, and slithering ...

A. That is a harmless rat snake. But the bumpy body from head to tail is not because it has eaten. That is a behavior called kinking, a not fully explained behavior of rat snakes.

Have you ever seen a crooked snake? Like the one in the photo? It would fit right in with the Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme about the crooked man. To paraphrase, “There was a crooked man, and he ...

Of the range of behaviors exhibited by the common black rat snake in Oklahoma, “kinking” is one not often seen but perhaps is one of its smartest non-moves. Anyone who has stumbled upon one of ...

A. That is a harmless rat snake. But the bumpy body from head to tail is not because it has eaten. That is a behavior called kinking, a not fully explained behavior of rat snakes.