Mainly eats snakes, including venomous
ones such as coral snakes, and also
lizards and small rodents, bats and
centipedes.
Herpetotheres cachinnans
(L18-22" WS 31-37"
Wt 14.5-24(m),-21.2-28.2(f) oz)
Crooked Tree Wildlife
Sanctuary
07Mar2019
David L.
Ross, Jr
Macaulay
Library
Herpetotheres is Greek for
reptile hunt; cachinnans
in Latin means laughing.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
(William Butler Yeats)