The Beautiful Unloved

Eastern diamondback rattlesnake in Cameron Park Zoo, Waco, Texas. These snakes are native to North Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana.

I love carnivorous mammals, but my second favorite type of animal is snakes. Before we had our exotics class, I was actually one of the only members of my vet tech student group who had willingly handled pet snakes. I usually like seeing pythons the most, but the Cameron Park Zoo has a wonderful collection of many different species, especially rattlesnakes.