A variety of California kingsnake is wreaking havoc in Canary Islands

Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - 08:00 in Biology & Nature

An albino variety of California kingsnake popular in the pet trade has infested the Canary Islands, decimating native bird, mammal and lizard species that have had no time to evolve evasive patterns in what was once a stable ecology northwest of Africa.

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