In Arizona, our local gophersnake is usually misidentified by locals as a bullsnake. You can’t blame anyone – the differences between the subspecies of Pituophis catenifer are mostly geographic – but it’s still fun to label this one a bullsnake, being the sayi flavor instead of the usual affinis. I found him crawling right on the border between New Mexico and Texas (Texas being the grass just off to the left in the photo, making this still a New Mexico animal), acting the same as any other member of his genus likes to do.
