Name: AHB Series 23 - Cave Beauty Snake – Elaphe taeniura ridleyi | Snake
SKU: AHB-V23-07-SNA
Price: 37.99 USD
Availability: InStock

AHB Series 23 – Cave Beauty Snake – Elaphe taeniura ridleyi | Snake

A charming, chubby figure of the Cave Beauty Snake (Elaphe taeniura ridleyi) — hand-painted in lifelike detail, ready to display on any desk or shelf.

Approx. Size: L 2.4 in × W 2.4 in × H 2.4 in (L 6 × W 6 × H 6 cm) · ~0.5 lb (230 g)
Material: Hand-painted resin
Display: Single fixed figure — ready to display

Only 2 left in stock

Animal Heavenly Body · A Series of Laugh and Grow

Series 23 · The Colubrid Snake Collection

Cave Beauty Snake

Elaphe taeniura ridleyi

The Cave Beauty Snake, or Cave Racer — a pale, silver-grey rat snake that lives inside limestone caves and hunts bats and swiftlets in total darkness.

THE CAVE-DWELLING RACER · hunts bats in the dark

RangeMalaysia, Thailand & nearby

HabitatLimestone caves

Adult Size6–8 ft (1.8–2.4 m)

HomeLives deep inside caves

PreyBats & cave swiftlets

SkillClimbs sheer cave walls

A Series of Laugh and Grow

Real animals, reimagined plump and cheerful — painted in lifelike detail, sculpted impossibly cute.

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Chubby & Full of Character

Rounded, soft and undeniably cute — yet every scale, wrinkle and marking is hand-painted true to the real animal. The reaction it gets in person is always the same: so detailed, and so adorable.

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Ready to Display

A single, sturdy hand-painted piece — no assembly, no fuss. Set it on a desk or shelf and it holds its happy pose, ready to collect and show off.

Few snakes live a stranger life than the cave racer. This pale, silver-grey beauty snake spends much of its life deep inside limestone caves, climbing sheer walls and ceilings in total darkness to pluck roosting bats and swiftlets straight from the rock.

A Life in the Dark

The cave racer lives inside cave systems, hunting in near-total darkness — a remarkable, specialized life shared by very few snakes on Earth.

Bat-Catcher

It climbs cave walls and ceilings to ambush roosting bats and cave-nesting swiftlets, relying on touch and heat rather than sight in the blackness.

Pale for the Cave

Its washed-out silver-grey coloring, with a dark stripe behind the eye, reflects a life lived away from the sun — a ghostly cousin of the brighter beauty snakes.

A Specialist Wonder

Perfectly adapted to one of the planet’s most unusual snake habitats, the cave racer is a true natural marvel — here rounded into a plump, pale coil.

“A snake that hunts bats in the dark, deep inside the mountain.”

Craft & Specifications

Series	A Series of Laugh and Grow (Series 23) — The Colubrid Snake Collection, by Animal Heavenly Body
Approx. Size	L 2.4 in × W 2.4 in × H 2.4 in (L 6 × W 6 × H 6 cm) · ~0.5 lb (230 g)
Material	Hand-painted resin
Display	Single fixed figure — ready to display out of the box
SKU	AHB-V23-07-SNA