Meet the king snake, a non-venomous reptile found across North America that has earned a reputation as one of the most unusual predators in the animal kingdom, not for producing venom, but for hunting and eating snakes that do.
Rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, copperheads: these are the kingsnake's prey. That ability, combined with a biological resistance to pit viper venom, is what gave this snake its name.
