Cave Racer Snake - Elaphe Taeniura Grabowskyi (Borneo)

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Cave Racer Snake - Elaphe Taeniura Grabowskyi (Borneo)

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Cave racer snake - Elaphe taeniura grabowskyi (Borneo)

Also called Cave Dwelling Rat snake and Beauty Rat snake.

If you know which is the preferred denomination for this snake, please post a comment.

This type of snake lives deep in caves and mostly feeds on bats. It is non-venomous.

For more info, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_rat_snake.

Spotted in Clearwater Cave in Gunung Mulu National Park (Borneo).

The Clearwater System is believed to be the largest interconnected cave system in the world by volume and the 9th longest cave in the world at 189 Km (as of 2011). For more photos, information and cave map, view my Clearwater cave photo series.

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Photo taken on August 24, 2011
Marudi, Malaysia
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