This is my "butter" corn snakes' tail. You can see how she uses it to hold on. Her tail is really quite long. It starts about where the very tip of her tail is touching her body.
Snake tails start right after the snakes' cloaca. This is the opening used to excrete waste, for mating and also where the eggs or baby snakes come out. Having one opening is pretty efficient...or gross depending on your point of view.
Here is a ball python tail. The pink circle shows where his cloaca is, that's where his tail starts. He also has spurs. Those are all that's left over from when they used to have legs...way back when.
Ferdinand was having a bad shed day. See his loose skin? He usually sheds very nicely. I recently moved him into a larger home and now he needs a bigger water bowl to keep the humidity a bit higher.
This is him after a nice soak. No more old shed. All spiffy and handsome. ;)
This is another of Tigerlily...sleeping off her first big meal since she broke her fast.
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