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#11417720

18 July 2024

A school of hatchlings is being pictured in the waters of San Giovanni di Sinis, Sardinia, Italy, on July 18, 2024.

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#11417721

18 July 2024

A school of hatchlings is being pictured in the waters of San Giovanni di Sinis, Sardinia, Italy, on July 18, 2024.

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#10341858

6 August 2023

Buff-striped Keelbacks (Amphiesma stolatum)are nonvenomous colubrid snakes that are distributed in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, where they occur in a variety of natural and altered habitats that include fields, grasslands, cultivated areas, scrub, and gardens, usually in the vicinity of water. It belongs to the subfamily Natricinae, and is closely related to water snakes and grass snakes. It is a typically nonaggressive snake that feeds on frogs and toads. Although common, they are encountered most frequently during monsoon seasons because they hibernate in the winter and aestivate in the summer consequently, opportunities to obtain gravid females or eggs are rare. Reports of clutch sizes and lengths of hatchlings vary. The snake lays a clutch of 5 to 10 pure white eggs. Females remain with eggs till they hatch. The young snakes are 13 to 17 cm at birth and eat small frogs, tadpoles, fish, earthworms, and insects. A male Buff-striped Keelback snake is mating with a female Keelback snake at Tehatta, West Bengal; India on august 06, 2023.

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#10341860

6 August 2023

Buff-striped Keelbacks (Amphiesma stolatum)are nonvenomous colubrid snakes that are distributed in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, where they occur in a variety of natural and altered habitats that include fields, grasslands, cultivated areas, scrub, and gardens, usually in the vicinity of water. It belongs to the subfamily Natricinae, and is closely related to water snakes and grass snakes. It is a typically nonaggressive snake that feeds on frogs and toads. Although common, they are encountered most frequently during monsoon seasons because they hibernate in the winter and aestivate in the summer consequently, opportunities to obtain gravid females or eggs are rare. Reports of clutch sizes and lengths of hatchlings vary. The snake lays a clutch of 5 to 10 pure white eggs. Females remain with eggs till they hatch. The young snakes are 13 to 17 cm at birth and eat small frogs, tadpoles, fish, earthworms, and insects. A male Buff-striped Keelback snake is mating with a female Keelback snake at Tehatta, West Bengal; India on august 06, 2023.

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#10341864

6 August 2023

Buff-striped Keelbacks (Amphiesma stolatum)are nonvenomous colubrid snakes that are distributed in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, where they occur in a variety of natural and altered habitats that include fields, grasslands, cultivated areas, scrub, and gardens, usually in the vicinity of water. It belongs to the subfamily Natricinae, and is closely related to water snakes and grass snakes. It is a typically nonaggressive snake that feeds on frogs and toads. Although common, they are encountered most frequently during monsoon seasons because they hibernate in the winter and aestivate in the summer consequently, opportunities to obtain gravid females or eggs are rare. Reports of clutch sizes and lengths of hatchlings vary. The snake lays a clutch of 5 to 10 pure white eggs. Females remain with eggs till they hatch. The young snakes are 13 to 17 cm at birth and eat small frogs, tadpoles, fish, earthworms, and insects. A male Buff-striped Keelback snake is mating with a female Keelback snake at Tehatta, West Bengal; India on august 06, 2023.

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#10341866

6 August 2023

Buff-striped Keelbacks (Amphiesma stolatum)are nonvenomous colubrid snakes that are distributed in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, where they occur in a variety of natural and altered habitats that include fields, grasslands, cultivated areas, scrub, and gardens, usually in the vicinity of water. It belongs to the subfamily Natricinae, and is closely related to water snakes and grass snakes. It is a typically nonaggressive snake that feeds on frogs and toads. Although common, they are encountered most frequently during monsoon seasons because they hibernate in the winter and aestivate in the summer consequently, opportunities to obtain gravid females or eggs are rare. Reports of clutch sizes and lengths of hatchlings vary. The snake lays a clutch of 5 to 10 pure white eggs. Females remain with eggs till they hatch. The young snakes are 13 to 17 cm at birth and eat small frogs, tadpoles, fish, earthworms, and insects. A male Buff-striped Keelback snake is mating with a female Keelback snake at Tehatta, West Bengal; India on august 06, 2023.

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#10341870

6 August 2023

Buff-striped Keelbacks (Amphiesma stolatum)are nonvenomous colubrid snakes that are distributed in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, where they occur in a variety of natural and altered habitats that include fields, grasslands, cultivated areas, scrub, and gardens, usually in the vicinity of water. It belongs to the subfamily Natricinae, and is closely related to water snakes and grass snakes. It is a typically nonaggressive snake that feeds on frogs and toads. Although common, they are encountered most frequently during monsoon seasons because they hibernate in the winter and aestivate in the summer consequently, opportunities to obtain gravid females or eggs are rare. Reports of clutch sizes and lengths of hatchlings vary. The snake lays a clutch of 5 to 10 pure white eggs. Females remain with eggs till they hatch. The young snakes are 13 to 17 cm at birth and eat small frogs, tadpoles, fish, earthworms, and insects. A male Buff-striped Keelback snake is mating with a female Keelback snake at Tehatta, West Bengal; India on august 06, 2023.

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#10341872

6 August 2023

Buff-striped Keelbacks (Amphiesma stolatum)are nonvenomous colubrid snakes that are distributed in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, where they occur in a variety of natural and altered habitats that include fields, grasslands, cultivated areas, scrub, and gardens, usually in the vicinity of water. It belongs to the subfamily Natricinae, and is closely related to water snakes and grass snakes. It is a typically nonaggressive snake that feeds on frogs and toads. Although common, they are encountered most frequently during monsoon seasons because they hibernate in the winter and aestivate in the summer consequently, opportunities to obtain gravid females or eggs are rare. Reports of clutch sizes and lengths of hatchlings vary. The snake lays a clutch of 5 to 10 pure white eggs. Females remain with eggs till they hatch. The young snakes are 13 to 17 cm at birth and eat small frogs, tadpoles, fish, earthworms, and insects. A male Buff-striped Keelback snake is mating with a female Keelback snake at Tehatta, West Bengal; India on august 06, 2023.

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#5146932

20 November 2019

A baby Steelhead trout is fighting for fish food in a pool at the Nimbus Fish Hatchery in Sacramento, California, United States on Sunday, November 17, 2019. The fish hatchery annually produces 4,000,000 Chinook salmon and 430,000 Steelhead trout.

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#5146934

20 November 2019

Baby Chinook salmon are seen fighting for fish food in a pool at the Nimbus Fish Hatchery in Sacramento, California, United States on Sunday, November 17, 2019. The fish hatchery annually produces 4,000,000 Chinook salmon and 430,000 Steelhead trout.

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#5146924

20 November 2019

A school of baby Chinook salmon are seen in a pool at the Nimbus Fish Hatchery in Sacramento, California, United States on Sunday, November 17, 2019. The fish hatchery annually produces 4,000,000 Chinook salmon and 430,000 Steelhead trout.

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#5146926

20 November 2019

An adult King salmon jumps out of the holding pool before spawning at the Nimbus Fish Hatchery in Sacramento, California, United States on Sunday, November 17, 2019. Salmon and steelhead trout returns from the ocean to the streams of their origin, to renew the cycle of life.

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#5146928

20 November 2019

Several adult King salmon jumps out of the holding pool before spawning at the Nimbus Fish Hatchery in Sacramento, California, United States on Sunday, November 17, 2019. Salmon and steelhead trout returns from the ocean to the streams of their origin, to renew the cycle of life.

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#5146930

20 November 2019

An adult King salmon swims upstream towards the holding pool before spawning at the Nimbus Fish Hatchery in Sacramento, California, United States on Sunday, November 17, 2019. Salmon and steelhead trout returns from the ocean to the streams of their origin, to renew the cycle of life.

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