The beautiful Trinket Snake is found mostly in forests or on plantations in the Western Ghats. It is interestingly, a non-venomous species. This snake is brownish in colour with magnificent black and white lines adorning its skin. Beautiful silver checks on its body make it appear like a silver necklace, thereby giving it its name.

A Trinket Snake: Splendid Beauty!

The Trinket Snake is generally found on plantations because of the presence of small lizards and rats there. It performs an important role on plantations as it feeds on creatures damaging coffee beans, thereby reducing the presence of pests.

A Magnificent Trinket Snake at Orange County, Coorg.

This snake, amazingly, can grow up to 4-5 feet long. It lays its eggs in regions that are moisture-rich and at the rate of 5-12 eggs each time. It takes 28-30 days for the young snakes to emerge from their eggs, rather more than usual where snakes are generally concerned. When the little hatchlings are born, the mother snakes divert them to grassy areas, where they are safe from predators such as eagles, crows and crow pheasants, which can otherwise prey on them.

As if Striking a Pose!

The bite of the Trinket Snake is painful; hence be sure to watch it from a safe distance if you spot it at Orange County, Coorg!

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