{"id":2382,"date":"2025-11-18T05:59:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2025-11-18T05:59:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:59:42","slug":"aquatic-coralsnake-in-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/aquatic-coralsnake-in-peru\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquatic Coralsnake in Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A relatively large Aquatic Coralsnake (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/elapidae\/micrurus\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"479\">Micrurus<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/elapidae\/micrurus\/surinamensis\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"493\">surinamensis<\/a><\/em>) found near camp in <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/peru\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"210\">Peru<\/a>. These snakes are relatively common, found in the swale alongside the river and smaller drainages, where they&#8217;re on the hunt for eels and other fish, and the occasional other snake. Compared to other coralsnakes, they are heavy-bodied, with a wide head and short tail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Micrurus-surinamensis_O4A4025-2-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Micrurus-surinamensis_O4A4025-2-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Micrurus-surinamensis_O4A4025-2-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Micrurus-surinamensis_O4A4025-2-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Micrurus-surinamensis_O4A4025-2-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Micrurus-surinamensis_O4A4025-2-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A relatively large Aquatic Coralsnake (Micrurus surinamensis) found near camp in Peru. These snakes are relatively common, found in the swale alongside the river and smaller drainages, where they&#8217;re on the hunt for eels and other fish, and the occasional other snake. Compared to other coralsnakes, they are heavy-bodied, with a wide head and short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[285,479,135,493],"tags":[210,211,481,625],"class_list":["post-2382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elapidae","category-micrurus","category-snakes","category-surinamensis","tag-peru","tag-amazon","tag-coralsnake","tag-eel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2384,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions\/2384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}