Snakesgiving 2025
Snakesgiving 2025
Saturday, Nov 29, 10am-3pm
Snakesgiving is back! Join us and learn all about snakes with crafts, educational games, snake-themed activities and, of course…SNAKES!
Join us for exciting, snake-themed activities, including a create-your-own-snake for a slithery friend to take home! Visitors will be encouraged to see and interact with our current Live Animal Room snake residents: Monty the Python, Rip Jaw the Rat Snake, and Chilipepper the Durango kingsnake. With these friendly snakes, visitors will realize that reptiles aren’t so scary, just scaly!
- 10am–3pm: Snake activities in Live Animal Room and Nature Gallery. Including snake buttons made with real snakeskin, make-your-own snake, and more!
- 1pm: Snake Discussion Panel in the lower level, Ornithology Collection. Talk to the experts and volunteers who care for our slithery friends.
- 3pm–5pm: The Feeding. Come to the Live Animal Room for The Feeding!
Enter with Museum Admission: $13 each
Did you know? Our kingsnake was donated by Kyle Loucks as part of our Snakesgiving event in 2021. Happy 14th Birthday Chili Pepper! See him and more snakes at this year's Snakesgiving on Nov 29.
Hognose snake
Live Animal Room
Welcome our new Live Animal Room Resident...
Welcome Hisstopher, the Plains hognose snake!
Our heartfelt thanks to Jason at @hog_alchemy for generously donating our new hognose snake—the newest Live Animal Room resident! This baby western hognose snake made his public debut on August 4 after we asked you, our visitors, to vote for his new name.
Species info:
Plains hognose snakes (Heterodon nasicus) are native to North America, especially around the Great Plains region, in areas with loose, sandy soil. Toads are their preferred prey, but they have also been documented eating other things such as amphibians, small rodents, and eggs. When hognose snakes feel threatened, they flatten their head and neck, hiss, and bluff strike. If that doesn’t give a predator pause, they may play dead! This performance includes writhing around, musking, and finally freezing belly-up until the threat passes.
What makes Hissstopher special:
Hissstopher was donated to the North Museum by Jason at Hog Alchemy in July 2025. He hatched on May 29th, 2025, so he’s just a baby! He is a little nervous around people still, but is quickly adjusting to museum life.
LEARN MORE about Hisstopher and all of the 20+ Live Animal Room residents!
Snakesgiving
Snakesgiving
With these friendly snakes, visitors will realize that reptiles aren’t so scary, just scaly!
Enter with Museum Admission. FREE for Members.
Saturday, Nov 30 from 10am–5pm
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