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Bob poses
I managed to get a snap of Bob while he was lounging out in the pond
this morning. The snake is about 4 1/2 ft long. He just sits there, motionless, until something comes within reach. http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...ekhuis/Bob.jpg Discerning observers will notice that this is not a southern black snake. As a matter of fact, it looks very much like a cottonmouth. So here's what happened. I was sitting out by the pond when I noticed this (rather elegant) long, thin, black snake. Over the next few days we named it, and I became rather attached to it. Then I didn't see it for a few days. Then I thought I saw it, but it seemed different somehow. The very next day I got a better look, and the snake had definitely put on weight, so much, in fact, that it didn't even look like the same snake. It wasn't. I have no idea what happened to the southern black racer, honest (the big snake probably ate it, snakes do that). The big snake even has that angular head shape so common to venomous snakes. But it isn't a cottonmouth (water moccasin). It is a Florida water snake, non-venomous (I won't say "harmless 'cause they bite -- hard) and almost identical to the venomous cottonmouth. One can tell the difference by the round eye pupils (cottonmouths have vertical elliptical pupils) and the lack of the heat sensitive "pit" between the eye and the nostril. Anyway, it seemed easier to just name the new snake "Bob" rather than go through all of this, at least that's my story and I'm sticking to it. -- Galen Hekhuis I may have mispoken |
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