I love my northern pine snake. He has some serious personality. Don't get me wrong I love my ball python and boa too, but the pine snake has a very large extra heaping of personality, curiosity, I would even call him silly. Like most pits, he can put on a huffing and puffing and VERY loud hissing (there is a vane of cartilage in front of the glottis which makes it a lot louder!) or even imitating a rattlesnake by rattling his tail against something and you hear a buzzzzzzz... It's almost always a big act and when you grab them they stop.

Definitely check out the pits (they are all under colubrids). They're just fun. That includes bullsnakes by the way.

Here's a short video of me teasing my northern pine snake and getting him to "rattle": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBjHE78fyrQ