Posted on 04/29/2016 6:59:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Water mocassins have a mind of their own. I’ve seen them go after people too. They’re very territorial.
Brazil’s Ilha da Queimada Grande, has some of the most venomous snakes in the world and is called the most dangerous place in Brazil. I’m not fond of snakes but if you want to keep then, you can keep them on an island away from me. Our relatives in Thailand like to have some around to clear the rice fields of rats. However many times I see them, practicularly the Cobras, the chills go up my spine.
A gourmet challenged me to eat
A tiny bit of rattlesnake meat,
Remarking, “Don’t look horror stricken,
You’ll find it tastes a lot like chicken.”
It did,
Now chicken I cannot eat.
Because it tastes like rattlesnake meat
Ogden Nash
Rattlesnake tastes like grease and cornmeal. Very little meat to taste.
rodent control?
(at the closing:) “Economics of Damage and Control .....It is very doubtful that snakes have much effect on the density of rodents”
http://icwdm.org/handbook/reptiles/RattleSnakes.asp
what is more likely to happen is that deer and other wildlife are going to be bitten in the legs and face and die
if rattlers migrate into settled areas, then livestock, dogs and cats are endangered.
to me, rattlers are the same as gophers and cockroaches - best dead on sight, having outlived their evolutionary tree
Rat snakes are non venomous and those suckers get huge.
The herpetologists here aren’t gonna like me for this but when I sees a snake, I kills it, unless it’s in a zoo or is somebody’s pet and they have it under control.
We have plenty of coyotes hunting rodents. Coyotes are an invasive species. Why add to that? Rattlesnakes will stop lyme disease? I don't think snakes are going to eat ticks. These "scientists" are more interest in returning the Earth to non human life than science.
Try Bay Village and Beacon Hill.
Some parts of Massachusetts are empty of people. It's like upstate New York. Most of the New York population is in or next to New York City. Half of Massachusetts lives within the 495 belt around Boston. The western cities have most of the other half. The Quabbin Reservoir is as rural as it gets. It's a forest.
Thank you for standing up for them.
Further reasons to preserve them.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100729172435.htm
Right now, right here, countless peoples’ lives are being saved with medicines derived from the venom of the very snakes they seek to destroy and they do not even know it.
How ironic.
*chuckle*
Snakes don’t eat ticks.
Snakes eat the vermin that the ticks feed on.
[I hope that was said in jest, otherwise...]
You would be amazed by how many “undesirable animals” are hard at work, keeping epidemics under control.
God made them all for a reason.
I would never question His wisdom.
Hate to bust your bubble but East Texas has a large population of Timber Rattlers. Listed with Texas Parks and Wildlife as a protected species. They range from East Texas all the way to the east coast, don’t know how far North they range but it might be surprising. We have 10 different species of Rattler here in Texas with Timbers being one.
A rattler might eat 4 times a year. If they’re using that excuse it’s a poor one. For rodent control the Fox probably tops the list, it will consume several daily. Here on the ranch there are tree things that get shot on sight and that’s rattlers, feral hogs and coyotes. On average I’ll kill about 75 to 100 rattlers a year and that’s not counting what the hands kill or the oil field guys kill.
Snakes are cold blooded. They don't each much. Coyotes and fox eat many more than rattlesnakes here in Massachusetts. Tick epidemics under control. Surely you jest. We have an epidemic increasing here. I got Lyme disease last year. My dog got Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and another tick bourn disease. The damn ticks are hanging out behind every blade of grass.
Not much for research, are ya?
I’d hazard a guess that you not only didn’t read what I said, you grossly misunderstood what little you skimmed over.
I would laugh at your ‘expertise’’, were it not so pointlessly destructive.
Perhaps you should read my posts again, more carefully.
Unless you have no desire to learn.
All snakes are opportunistic eaters.
Every chance they get, they will eat.
They have to, in case they must endure a spell when no food is available.
“snakes do not attack people, that’s all a myth,” said Perrotti.”
Wrong. Maybe Perrotti has never been in contact with a cottonmouth?
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