108: Long Nosed Snake
The nose looks fairly normal to me
This is a shy snake, spending most of its time burrowed into rodent holes. It has no venom but will release a sharp musky, bloody smell and reddish fluid from its cloaca if threatened. It lives in southeastern Colorado, amongst other places in the western USA. They are tolerant to the cold (for cold-blooded animals) and eats lizards, other snakes, rodents, nesting birds, eggs, and pretty much anything else they can find. They kill their prey by constriction.
Their Latin name is Rhinocheilus lecontei, with the latter part of it referring to John Lawrence LeConte (1825-1883), an American entomologist who in his lifetime named around half of the insect taxa in the United States known to Western science. He also sent around 30,000 beetle specimens during his travels back to his father in New York, but 20,000 of them were lost in a fire.
I thought this was a pretty snake:
