The diet includes rodents, birds, bird eggs and other snakes, and this species is even known to have cannibalistic tendencies towards its own kind (2)!Mating usually occurs in spring, with six to 12 eggs being laid in early to mid-summer, which then take a following 40 to 60 days incubation before hatching (2).Despite its habit of releasing foul odours, the king ratsnake makes a surprisingly popul