What's silky, shiny, and eats rattlesnakes for breakfast? That would be the eastern indigo snake. This gentle giant (it's the longest native snake species in North America) is a non-venomous reptile that lives in the longleaf pine forests of the southeastern United States. Not only are these snakes gorgeous with their bejeweled shimmering scales, but they also play a critical role in population control for many small mammals, birds, amphibians, and other snakes. Eastern indigos also represent on