{"id":2443,"date":"2025-12-19T04:25:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T11:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2025-12-19T04:25:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T11:25:20","slug":"black-headed-calico-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/international-field-herping\/black-headed-calico-snake\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Headed Calico Snake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Close up with a Black Headed Calico Snake, a harmless <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/mimic\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"611\">mimic<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/hemphrics-coralsnake-and-its-mimic\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2345\">Hemphrich&#8217;s Coralsnake<\/a> which also lives in the area. Found a couple of years ago in <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/peru\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"210\">Peru<\/a>.<\/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\/Oxyrhopus-vanidicus-_8373-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oxyrhopus-vanidicus-_8373-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oxyrhopus-vanidicus-_8373-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oxyrhopus-vanidicus-_8373-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oxyrhopus-vanidicus-_8373-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oxyrhopus-vanidicus-_8373-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close up with a Black Headed Calico Snake, a harmless mimic of the Hemphrich&#8217;s Coralsnake which also lives in the area. Found a couple of years ago in Peru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141,1,608,135,609],"tags":[211,481,611],"class_list":["post-2443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colubridae","category-international-field-herping","category-oxyrhopus","category-snakes","category-vandicus","tag-amazon","tag-coralsnake","tag-mimic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443","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=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions\/2445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}