Chicken snake
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photon-collector
Loc: Tampa Bay Area, Florida
"Rat" snakes are constrictors. They generally eat small rodents. All snakes can bite, but these are typically docile and actually make good pets if you are into that. The yellow and red rat snakes are quite beautiful, especially the scutes on the underbelly.
Jun 15, 2022 07:42:02 #
BurghByrd
Loc: Pittsburgh
I suspect you would have a different outlook if you had a chicken coop. Snakes deserve to be here as much as any of us but there can be conflicts.
Jun 15, 2022 08:36:21 #
Jun 15, 2022 08:41:12 #
Nice image. I don't kill snakes either. A week or so ago my wife came home to find a black snake on our front porch. I simply caught it and released it in a more appropriate area.
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Jun 15, 2022 08:50:49 #
For all you who may have an extreme fear of snakes, often saying you don't know if it is poisonous or not, go to the down load on this pic and look at the pupil of the eye. It is round. All the vipers of North America, i.e. rattlers, copperheads, and cotton mouths, have eliptical pupils like a cat's eye. The aforementioned snakes also have a tail that has a short blunt taper. The non-poisoness snakes have a long slim taper in their tail. Snakes are an essential part of the ecosystem. Unfortunately too many of us grow up with what is mostly a superstitious fear of snakes which borders on the completely unreasonable.
I am not a scientist, biologist, even a college grad. Where did I learn these things about snakes? Eleventh grade biology class in the high school where I graduated from in 1964. Was education better then? It was in many ways more practical.
I am not a scientist, biologist, even a college grad. Where did I learn these things about snakes? Eleventh grade biology class in the high school where I graduated from in 1964. Was education better then? It was in many ways more practical.
Jun 15, 2022 09:34:11 #
Nice shot! So many people do not realize that black rat snakes and chicken snakes kill and eat the poisonous ones. They are GOOD to have around.
Jun 15, 2022 09:40:37 #
nikon_jon wrote:
For all you who may have an extreme fear of snakes... (show quote)
A triangular shaped head could be added to an identifying feature of the vipers.
Add “red and yellow kill a fellow” to I.D. the coral snake (round pupils) & you’ll cover all the venomous snakes in North America.
Jun 15, 2022 11:01:38 #
Thanks. I overlooked the triangular head. Thanks again and for the ID features on the coral snake.
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Dan Thornton wrote:
Nice specimen, I don't kill them either.
Thanks Dan.
Jun 15, 2022 13:24:01 #
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