Cave Racer

The cave racer is a large rat snake, occuring naturally in lowland to highland rainforests other than cave habitats. The subspecies found in Peninsular Malaysia is also known from Southern Thailand, but nowhere else. The base colour is cream, some specimens with a light brownish or orange hue at the upper body. The head is bluish grey while a pale vertebral stripe runs along the lower section (which also becomes purplish brown) towards the tail. An aggressive species, it feeds primarily on mammals, including birds, bats, lizards and rodents. Active during the day and night, this rat snake is arboreal, but also adept to ground. Females lay between 8-15 eggs, which hatch in 70 days.