Back in 1984 troll-before-his-time Harasim even held a "Name The Houston Zoo's Fake Coral Snake Contest" which received hundreds of entries, enough to fill one of his old army duffel bags.

The biologists reasoned that if mimicry were causing the king snake to resemble the coral snake ... Controls were fake "snakes" bearing either stripes rather than rings or plain brown skin.

Mitchell Lake Audubon Center's Conservation and Operations Manager Gilbert Martinez holds a Milk snake, left, and a fake coral snake during a snake safety class, Sunday, August 6, 2017.JERRY LARA ...

KENTUCKY, USA — While the deadly coral snake does not exist in Kentucky, there are two snake species that look incredibly similar you may find slithering around the Bluegrass State. The coral ...

There was a time when Houston Zoo passed off rubber snake as real By Craig Hlavaty , Houston Chronicle Updated Aug 16, 2013 1:51 p.m. A real coral snake (Houston Chronicle) ...