Another kind of "lovebirds"

[Angelicarboreals]

These are my cornsnakes, the male is the grey (called anerythristic) cornsnake, and the female is the orange (called hypomelanistic). They have gotten some fame this year, last week they accompanied me to the labs that I teach in order to educate the students on genetics. (I got permission to use my snakes instead of corn for examples of monohybrid crosses.)

As I told my students, the corn that we were supposed to use as an example is great and all, but wouldn't they rather work with animals? They nodded and were shocked when I brought out my four foot corn snakes (I hadn't told any of them we would have animals.) I teach again on Monday for the last time, I am going to see about having someone videotape it for me.

Here they are:

 

[Sarin]

Very nice! Do you normally house them together or did you just do that for the pictures?

I have two Ball Pythons and a Crestie, myself.

 

[Emmilyy]

They're gorgeous!!

 

[M.C Bird Rescue]

Very pretty. We just went to a reptile show today.

 

[southernbirds]

I love the working analogy you showed your students as examples of genetics. I'm sure the lesson will inspire them to look further into what they see. Great Job!!

 

[Birdiemarie]

They are beautiful! I'm sure your students will never forget what they learned that day. Great idea.

 

[Angelicarboreals]

Very nice! Do you normally house them together or did you just do that for the pictures?

I have two Ball Pythons and a Crestie, myself.

Thanks everyone. I do house these guys together full time, I keep a small box underneath their cage to separate them at feeding time.

 

[rockoko]

I like the female's coloring!!

 

[Marlene]

Snakes!!!

 

[logo89]

I love them both they are so gorgeous!