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unless you are a student of snakes it is hard to see a picture of a venomous snake and then months later be able to identify a live one. In the excitement of finding any snake, I tend to panic and just want to get rid of it anyway I know, either running it off or running to get a shovel and hoping it is gone by the time i get back.
unless you are a student of snakes it is hard to see a picture of a venomous snake and then months later be able to identify a live one. In the excitement of finding any snake, I tend to panic and just want to get rid of it anyway I know, either running it off or running to get a shovel and hoping it is gone by the time i get back.
We have 3 kinds of poisonous snakes in my area: Copperheads, Rattlesnakes, and Water Moccasins. I only have to know what those three poisonous ones look like and believe me, I do!
I had always heard that the baby copperheads were much more poisonous than the adult ones and this video confirms it. Something about immature pit vipers not being able to control the venom flow from their fangs vs. adults that control the amount of venom they secrete.
Ouch! I had a close friend who was bitten on his right pointing finger by an immature prairie rattler in SE New Mexico about 35 years ago. He had thought it was a pygmy rattler and wanted to collect it since we were students collecting biological specimens in the area for an EIS. He didn't have the proper equipment and used a forked stick. Unfortunately the fork was too large and the snake was able to get a fang into his finger. He lost a significant amount of muscle tissue in his finger and hand after being taken to a Carlsbad hospital. He bears the scars to this day.
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