On this page you will find a few different things. There are facts to learn, and activity to do, and an assessment to test how much you understand about this fascinating animal.
Hope you enjoy it!!
I am a long, slender snake with blue-gray to gray green coloration on the neck grading down to a yellow-green body and gray-brown color towards the tail. I live on the sub-Mongollon Rim mountain ranges of south-central and southeastern Arizona. I move very fast ground dweller. I sleep in trees on warm, humid nights. I hibernate during the cold months of late fall and winter. When I am captured i do not hesitate to bite. I like to eat lizards, snakes, bats, rats, other small mammals, birds, and amphibians. Mating takes place in the Spring and a clutch of up to 13 eggs is laid in the summer. Who am I?
WHO AM I? Hey there! Do you know who I am? I have a long, slender body. I like to slither around on the desert floor. My tongue has a funny fork look to it that I use to smell out my food. Can you guess who I am? That's RIGHT! I am the Sonoran Whipsnake.
WHERE DO I LIVE? I line in the sub-Mongollon Rim mountain ranges of south-central and southeastern Arizona. I like a variety of biotic communities, such as, Arizona Upland Sonoran Desertscrub, Semidesert Grasslands, Interior Chaparral, Madrean Evergreeen Woodland, and the lower reaches of Great Basin Conifer Woodland. I can usually be found above the flats on mountain slopes and canyons, in foothills, along ridges, and on steep rocky bajadas.
WHAT DO I EAT? I forage for lizards, snakes, bats, mice, rats, other small mammals, birds and amphibians.
HOW DO I LOOK? I am slender snake with blue-gray to gray-green coloration on my neck grading to yellow-green at mid body and gray-brown toward the tail. I also have two thin white stripes on each side of my body that start at my neck and extend to about my mid-body before disappearing into the background color. can grow to be up to 70 inches tall, that is 5 feet 10 inches!! I can be a very long snake.
HOW DO I REPRODUCE? Up to 13 eggs are laid in summer.
FUN FACT ABOUT ME? When captured I do not hesitate to bite.
ACTIVITY
Materials Needed
- Paper
- Crayons, Markers, and other art supplies
- Internet access for pictures
- scissors
- Pens and Pencils
- Glue (stick or bottle what ever you prefer)
- Imagination
K-1st Grade: Its Poster Time!! Now that you have read about this mysterious animal, make a poster to show other people what you have learned. You poster should be 11” x 8.5”, draw pictures, ask an adult to help you print pictures from the Internet, you also need to include the animals name, and where they are found. Have fun and be creative, after all it is your poster!
2nd Grade: Its Poster Time!! Now that you have read about this mysterious animal, make a poster to show other people what you have learned. You poster should be 11” x 17” (or a piece of construction paper), you will also need to include three pictures you can draw them or ask an adult to help you print pictures from the Internet. You also need to include three facts you learned about the animal on the poster. Have fun and be creative, after all it is your poster!
3rd Grade: Its Poster Time!! Now that you have read about this mysterious animal, make a poster to show other people what you have learned. You will also need to include five (5) pictures you can draw them or ask an adult to help you print pictures from the Internet. You also need to have five (5) facts you learned about the animal on the poster. You poster should be as big or as small as you would like, remember you have to fit all your facts and pictures on it. Have fun and be creative, after all it is your poster!
References
The Reptiles and Amphibians of Arizona
This is a good place to learn more about this animal and others on this site!
http://www.reptilesofaz.org/Snakes-Subpages/h-c-bilineatus.html 
