Behavior
Mole kingsnakes' preferred habitat is open fields with loose, dry soil, typically on the edge of a forested region. Their diet consists primarily of rodents, but they will also consume lizards, frogs and occasionally other snakes. They are nonvenomous, and typically docile. Like most colubrids, if harassed they will vibrate their tail rapidly. These snakes are very secretive and very fossorial and rarely seen above ground during the day unless they are forced out by heavy rains. Mole kingsnakes are mainly nocturnal and commonly seen on paved roads at night.
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