LetThereBeLight!
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You likely would have been okay if you got bit, least venomous out of the pit vipers.
While I am a chance taker, I'm not exactly that type of risk taker!
You likely would have been okay if you got bit, least venomous out of the pit vipers.
who wouldnt want to get bit?While I am a chance taker, I'm not exactly that type of risk taker!
As a boy I remember seeing multiple cottonmouths balled up in a Cyprus tree though I have no idea why they would be grouped together like that but it made an impression. My grandfather had no fear of them and liked to fish under trees that had snakes in them based on some belief that the fish were more likely to bite.
However there is ZERO question in my mind the threat display is more than a bluff. If pushed they would bite. Sometimes I don't get the same feeling with a Timber. Ok odds are you would get bitten if the situation allowed but they seem calmer. I can't explain it. Could be a water snake thing. Pick up a common watersnake and it goes crazy from both ends.
This rat snake has a good threat display. Even rattled it's tail though watersnakes are probably most miss identified as venomous. They just look nasty.
My advice is don't pull on this tail.
It seems likely that you just have a simple and understandable case of misidentification. No harm, no foul.
He doesn't look dangerous. What is it, any idea?
He doesn't look dangerous. What is it, any idea?
Lumen83,
Regarding snakes, what is the difference between "non-venomous" and "non-poisonous"?
Just got my first Malkoff MD2 and was using it to take the dog for a walk tonight when I ran across this guy in my driveway.
I know, any light would have probably worked but the quality Malkoff suddenly felt like money well spent.
Just came back because I saw this article. I mentioned I saw multiple cottonmouths together in a tree in my youth. Maybe I misidentified them but here is a picture of what the photog identified as 4 cottonmouths but there seems to be some debate. Cottonmouths or Copperheads?
https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/state/north-carolina/article226528810.html