EASTERN INDIGO

SIZE

• Regular length is 8.5 feet
• The average weight is about 11 lbs.
• One of the largest snakes in America

THE SKIN

• It is a lustrous black
• Chin, throat ,and cheeks sometimes red

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DIET

• Fish, frogs, toads, turtles
• Smaller snakes
• Other animal eggs
• Small mammals
• Small alligators

HOW IT HUNTS

• They immobilize their prey
• They push it to the ground
• They break it's neck
• Then suffocates it
• Then swallows it whole

BITES

• The snake not poisonous
• They sometimes bite people
• They mostly bite their prey

YOUNG

• They lay 4 to 12 eggs at a time
• The egg is nearly 3in
• They are oval and cream colored
• The males sometimes eat the eggs

CHARACTERISTICS

• It has a triangular head
• Black beady eyes
• A spit usually red tonge
• Has a black and blue coloration
• Sometimes red around throat

FACTS

• Like to live near water
• Iive in underground burrows
• Endangered in the U.S
• Illegal to harm them or keep as pets

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