The blind Snake
Leptotyphlops
dulcis Texas Blind Snake is the scientific
name for The Blind snake. This creature absolutely different than other snake because
of the features and appearance. These creatures commonly found in arid
grasslands and desert fringes as long as moisture and surface cover, such as
rocks and logs area. These blind snakes are fossorial and have a various type
of habitat, which is ample food and loose, moist soil. This habitat normally
found in arborescent (resembling a tree in form and branching structure) place.
This animal has been found in In the United States, L. dulcis is found in
southwestern Kansas, western Oklahoma, central Texas, southern New Mexico, and
southeastern Arizona. In Mexico, this species ranges from Chihuahua, Coahuila,
and Tamaulipas, to Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Veracruz, Queretaro, Hidalgo,
and Puebla.
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| common size of The Blind snake |
This cute little snake are very small, the average length
for this little creature are around 4 to
5 mm in diameter, have small, uniform, smooth scales, blunt heads, and reduced
eyes. Their skin colour is more to reddish brown to pink or gray with most
pigment in the seven most dorsal scale rows. According to Alexandra Prediger,how
this creature run their reproduction is by “Males follow female pheromone
trails to find mates. "Mating balls" of blind snakes are not uncommon,
where several males try to copulate with the same female at once. Mating occurs
under a rock or in a crevice and the male wraps himself around the female in a
corkscrew shape”. This little blind are really small and have some difficulty
to expose themselves because of their fossorial habits.
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| Blind Snake head |
The truth about this creature, they are not really blind and
they still can distinguish changes in light intensity. They also use chemical
to communicate with other blind snake. Blind snake is carnivore and they only
eat insects, terrestrial non-insect arthropods. The predator for these snake is
Eastern screech owls, this is because of researcher using found them in nest screech owls.
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