The blue tongue skink lives in Australia. They eat plants, insects, and mice. They can grow to be 12-15 inches long. Some of the blue tongue skinks live to be about twenty years old. Do you know that the blue tongue skink gives birth to live young? It does not lay eggs like most reptiles. Their habitat is a little rock or a burrow under it.

By Shawn and Kierstan


 

The pine snake is a snake that grows from 48 to 66 inches. They mainly eat Barid’s pocket gopher. They are mainly from North Carolina. They also live in many other places. They shed their skin and lay tough leathery eggs.
 

By Taylor and Tyler

Our reptile is the Albino Python. The Albino Python is one of the 6 biggest snakes in the world. They are found near water. They are 25 feet long and some weigh almost 400 pounds. The strange thing is the females are larger than the males. These are some facts about the Albino Python.

By Morgan and Erika

The Albino King Snake lives in California, Oregon, Arizona, and Utah. It eats lizards, rats, and mice. One interesting fact is that some of them have pink eyes and lack all the dark colors usually evident in the normal pattern of the species. They are easily seen by their lack of camouflage and don’t survive well in the wild. They are carnivores, which means they eat meat. Their scientific name is Lumpropeltis Getula California.

By Kellyn and Cortney


 

The California ground squirrel lives in northern California, Oregon, and Washington. It eats a variety of seeds and insects. It can grow to be 19 inches long. It can live for 10 years. California ground squirrels hibernate.

By Caitlyn and Alex
 

 My friend Tyler and I got to hold a tarantula. The common name of the tarantula is curly hair tarantula, but its scientific name is Brachypelma Aibopilosum. Some people call it the wooly tarantula. These spiders can grow to have legs of 5.5 inches. The life span of the female curly hair tarantula can be 3-10 years but the male’s life span is much shorter. These tarantulas live in tropical and desert regions around the world. They are usually very docile and calm. They mainly eat insects and other arthropods.

By Meagan and Tyler

  The animal we held at the Reptile Show was the Chinchilla. The Chinchilla lives in the Andes Mountains region. It lives in colonies of about 100. Chinchillas can live up to 15 years. The female Chinchilla is larger than the male. It takes as long as 111 days for the young to develop. They do not have many babies at one time. Chinchillas are omnivores. They eat plants, fruits, seeds, and some times insects, leaves, and bark. They are hunted by hawks, owls, snakes, skunks, foxes, and many others. Did you know that a Chinchilla can jump up to 5 feet high? Once there were giant Chinchillas, but they were hunted to extinction.

By Jesse and Micaela

 The snake we held is called the California King Snake. The California King lives in California, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and Mexico .The California king snake can grow to be 4 to 5 feet long. It can live to be 3 or 4 years old. In captivity they can live to be 20 years old! In the wild California king snakes hide in refuse piles or in abandoned rodent burrows emerging at dusk to hunt. The California King Snake eats rodents, birds, lizards, frogs, and other snakes. We were very lucky to be able to hold a California King Snake.
 

By Matthew and Miranda

The Aldabra tortoise can live to be over 100 years old .The male tortoise gets up to 360 pounds and 47 inches. The female tortoises can get up to be 150 pounds and 35 inches. They live on the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles Islands. They live in swamps, grassland, and low scrub mangroves. The tortoises eat grass and leaves. They have a dark gray or black color shell .Their shell will protect them when danger comes. They are reptiles and are hard shelled. They are the only reptile that has a shell. They dig a hole under ground to rest when it is hot outside.
 

By Morgan and Breanna

The Pygmy Hedgehog ranges from Southern Africa to Senegal to the Sudan and to Zambia. They can be found in the Mediterranean conifer and mixed forest climates. They eat mostly insects. It gets to be about 7-9 inches. Did you know that they breed twice a year in October and March! Their life span is 2-3 years in the wild and 8-10 years in captivity.  

By Tyler and Sienna

The hissing cockroach lives in Madagascar. They give birth to over 20-40 babies over a two day period. They can grow to be 2-3 inches long and 1 inch wide. You can tell a female from a male by its brushier antennae. Males also have prominent protrusions on their thorax which are called pronotal humps. Females have very small bumps or none. They feed off fallen fruit from trees.

By Taylor and Morgan

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