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Amazing green wing macaw at #birds_network a pet shop of my friend Irfan Soomro

The royal diadem ratsnake is a colorful and sought after subspecies of the diadem ratsnake complex. They are also known as the Pakistan Jeweled ratsnake or the black headed royal snake. They are found in arid and semi-arid regions of Pakistan and India. Though they are primarily terrestrial and often take refuge in borrows, they are also excellent climbers. Adults have a tan, orangish, or reddish base with black splotches. The degree of black splotching varies greatly even within snakes found at the same site. I have seen snakes captured from the same borrow where one had only a handful of these black markings and the other was almost completely covered in them. The head often contains deep red and black markings. There may also be brownish saddles along the spine.  Juveniles are more subtly colored and do not display the red or black markings until they are over one year of age. These are medium sized colubrids reaching lengths of around five feet long. They are also known to make rather loud hissing hounds when disturbed, but adults rarely bite. They are a rear-fanged species, but none of the bites I’ve received have produced any reaction.

2nd time feeding of my rough scaled sand boa

(Live feeding)

This little grey diadem snake rescued by me from a cloth factory