Kingsnake with rattles?

Okay, let me start by saying that i know absolutely nothing about kingsnakes. I love balls! <- i am gonna get it for that.

anyway, we bought my gf's sister a baby kingsnake at the Tampa show yesterday and i was reading some threads about them on Kingsnake and here. I found a couple of threads where people were talking about baby kingsnakes making a rattling sound but aparently it goes away when they get bigger. What? we looked this little girl up and down and didn't find a rattler. so, i am just wondering which ones have a rattler?

we got an Albino Cali King

Its not that they have rattles, its that they shake their tail like a rattler.

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Originally Posted by Beardedragon

Its not that they have rattles, its that they shake their tail like a rattler.

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And when they do that in dry grass or leaves or up against the side of your tank, it sounds amazingly like a rattlesnake.

It's kind of funny if you get one who's really into it.

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Originally Posted by Beardedragon

Its not that they have rattles, its that they shake their tail like a rattler.

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so when the threads said that they "heard" them rattle they meant they looked like they rattled. i'll see if i can locate the thread. but they said "heard."

i am not worried about anything i am just curious.

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Originally Posted by wilomn

And when they do that in dry grass or leaves or up against the side of your tank, it sounds amazingly like a rattlesnake.

It's kind of funny if you get one who's really into it.

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oh, that answered my ? while i was typing the sewcond one.



thanks ya'll

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Originally Posted by Ranegyr

so when the threads said that they "heard" them rattle they meant they looked like they rattled. i'll see if i can locate the thread. but they said "heard."

i am not worried about anything i am just curious.

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My Albino Cali still vibrates her tail, especially when feeding or when spooked. You are bound to hear it at some stage but it's merely a defence mechanism. All my Colubrids do this and yes it does sound remarkably like a rattler!

Not just kings, my corns do that when startled too.

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Originally Posted by wilomn

And when they do that in dry grass or leaves or up against the side of your tank, it sounds amazingly like a rattlesnake.

It's kind of funny if you get one who's really into it.

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Yeah my little boy thumbs his tail agaist the glass every once and a while when I get to close and makes the noise. Mean little devil he is though...

My cornsnake does that on occasion too.

I just fed my kingsnake in a deli cup and she was rattling, very cool. They definately try inpersonating venomous snakes.