Photo Courtesy California Academy of Sciences


Starting his life on September 15, 1995 in a Louisiana swamp, Claude was quickly brought into captivity because the chances of survival as an albino animal is none. After a brief time growing up at St. Augustine Alligator Farm & Zoological Gardens, Claude became a fixture at the California Academy of Sciences building in their swamp. He also in a way became an unofficial and well beloved mascot of the whole City of San Francisco.

“As you can imagine it’s a very sad day over here,” said Jeanette Peach, Cal Academy’s acting communications director, in an email to SFGATE. “At the moment we’re not doing interviews as we don’t have more information to share yet, but once we have the findings of the necropsy and exam that is being performed at UC Davis we will be able to share more.”

Our hearts go out to his care team. To read more and see some videos and photos of Claude, visit SFGate here.

We wanted to update this articles with the findings that the necropsy results have returned and show "extensive liver cancer" among other ailments. You can read more here

This pair of Common Toads in our herp photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user Krallenfrosch Happy Wednesday! Be sure to tell them you liked it here!



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This cute lil cham is getting ready to help decorate the tree in our herp photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user 1Sun! Be sure to tell them you liked it here!





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Next Gen Retics podcast recently invited Jon and Cindy on to talk about all things kingsnake! We chatted about Jon buying it, a little history, what is coming in the future and more! Catch it here!



We would like to offer a huge thank you to both Rodney and Spencer for inviting us to chat! Hit us up if you would like to have either Jon or Cindy or both on your podcast to talk all things kingsnake!

We love the close up of the Black Tailed Rattlesnake in our herp photo of the day uploaded by kingsnake.com user bigdnutz! This lil beauty was photographed in situ in Arizona and was a very patient model. Be sure to tell them you liked it here! As always on Fridays, we take the time to spotlight our venomous friends to help raise the awareness for the need of conservation and protections of them as part of the #RattlesnakeFriday movement!



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Without the community there is no us, so we just wanted to toss out a thank you for being so supportive withour rebirth. On our socials today, we will be tossing this message up, but we have comment section open here on on our one blog, so feel free to participate here as well!

THANK YOU
We’re not even 4 weeks in with new ownership and the support from the community is amazing.

The shout outs, the calls and emails, sharing with your friends, and the memes have been excellent and we know there are more we haven't seen.

So please share where you're seeing people post about Kingsnake.
Post the memes below.

Check back later, and see what's been added.

THANK YOU for your support. Kingsnake is coming back in a big way for all of you.

We know we have been promising BIG things and just to prove it, here is a sneak peek! Remember, we have a lot to work on so things are taking time, but our first thing is about ready to go so we wanted to share that now! The thing you have been begging for! A better mobile experience!

WHAT?! Mobile update?!

Yes, you heard right, we gave a sneak peak of how our new mobile site is coming along. Very much a work in progress, but we thought you’d all enjoy a sneak peak.

BIG THINGS HAPPENING!

Thank you for coming back and supporting us in such a big way! We hope to go live very soon!

The close up on this Green Bottle Blue Tarantula (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens) in our Herp Photo of the day, uploaded by kingsnake.com user VansXotics is just amazing! Did you forget we still have a spot for our inverts?! We didn't! Be sure to tell them you liked it here!

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