• Scientific name: Pituophis catenifer
• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Chordata
• Class: Reptilia
• Order: Squamata
• Family: Colubridae
• Genus: Pituophis
• Species: P. catenifer

Fun Facts

• Bull snakes are harmless and named for their distinctive hiss, which sounds like a grunting bull.
• In the West they are known as "gopher snakes."
• In the East they are know as "pine snakes."
• Bull snakes eat small mammals such as mice, rabbits, gophers, prairie dogs as well as ground nesting birds and also other snakes.
• Bull snakes can grow up to 7 feet long.