1)Blue Racer
Blue Racer
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Description:
The Blue Racer is approximately six feet long and sometimes can be found to be even longer, stretching up to two meters. The Blue Racer is also very skinny.
It has a whip like tail, a long head, big eyes and its skin is quite scaly.
The Blue Racer is basically blue or black, as its name suggests, or a combination of colors. The upper part of the body has gray, green or blue coloring, while its under parts are greenish or whitish.
Young blue racers have gray or brown spots on their back.
The Blue Racer eats rats and other small animals, such as mice and insects.
The Blue Racer mates in the springtime, laying approximately 12 eggs in decaying wood, sawdust piles or under rocks.
The Blue Racer also drinks lots of water.
Environment:
The Blue Racer can be found in one part of Southern Ontario.
In the summer, they live out in the open, but they like to have lots of cover and they like wooded areas. They are usually found in trees or in the grass.
In the winter, the snake hibernates in quarries.
The Blue Racer needs a lot of space to move around on.
Problems:
The Blue Racer became endangered in 1991.
The snake is endangered from road-kill and through hunting of it's skin for leather. Also, many of its eggs are destroyed or sometimes the babies can die young.
Solutions:
I also learned that the Blue Racer is protected by the Ontario Endangered Species Act, and some areas of habitat are protected by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources.
Summary:
I wanted to know more about the Blue Racer, what or how it eats, drinks, how the Blue Racer grows, and how the snake sleeps or hibernate, etc.
The reason I wanted to do the reptile I chose is because I wanted to choose a reptile so I could learn more about it.
I knew nothing about the Blue Racer at all before I researched the snake.
I learned a lot about a snake I never had heard of and about how it is endangered in Ontario, so close to where we live.