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Red tailed racer snake
Our red tailed racer snakes can be found in the Tropical House.
Red tailed racer snakeGonyosoma oxycephalum
Class:
Reptiles
Order:
Squamata
Family:
Colubridae
About the Red tailed racer snake
Red tailed racer snakes inhabit primary and secondary forests of southeast Asia.
Their diet consists of rats, mice, birds, bats and lizards.
Conservation
Like many species from South East Asia, these snakes suffer due to the degradation of their habitat.