Can't say I've ever tasted one but there's a first time for everything.
Posted on 04/29/2016 6:59:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I've only seen one true timber rattler and that was in the Great Smokies. Beautiful snake.
You’re welcome!
That is just not true! They have a very slow digestive system, while some made feed at a faster rate Rattlers eat no more than a few times a year.
I wondered if anyone would pick up on that. The timber rattler southern border stops in Missouri or Arkansas.
I have seen many timber rattlers in Missouri. They don’t want to take on anything bigger than themselves and the rattle is a warning to stay away. They really don’t want to get involved in a fight.
The snake I don’t like is the water moccasin. I have met up a lot of them and they are vicious. They will stand their ground whereas a rattler will run.
“Hate to bust your bubble but East Texas has a large population of Timber Rattlers.”
I had forgotten about that. The rural county I lived in specified one of the rattlers as endangered and when I found that out my reaction was “Wait, What?”.
I lived in Missouri for many years and the timber rattlers are thick. Fortunately they are not aggressive.
The best advice I can give is the SOP for Missouri:
Most all snakebites are below the ankle, therefor:
Where hiking boots and make noise with your feet as you walk around. I can’t remember how many rattlers I spotted running from me when I walked loudly through the forest, especially at night.
Agreed. I just don’t like snakes.
Rattlesnakes have a highly-efficient digestive system which takes a lot of metabolic energy, as does searching or prey.
After a rattlesnake swallows its prey, it will normally hide out while the meal is digested.
Rattlesnakes become sluggish while digesting, a process that can take several days depending on the size of the meal.
They average about two weeks between meals, when food is available.
Young rattlers eat much more frequently.
Perhaps you have mistaken them for Boa Constrictors, which do have a relatively slower digestive system., since they are ambush predators who lay around and wait for food to happen by, rather than actively hunting, like rattlers do.
“Nowhere else in New England I can imagine is a better place to try this experiment,” said Tom Tyning.
I think your backyard would be better, Tom.
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Yet the ignorance stumbles on...
;D
I’m still laughing about the people who were “chased by snakes”.
I bet it was Coachwhips, who bit their own tails and rolled like hoops, after them.
/snerk!
Perhaps you should read my posts again, more carefully.
In one post you write rattlesnakes eat about every two weeks. In another you write they are opportunistic and eat whenever they can to live through periods of food scarity. Which is it? You sound like an idiot.
Can't say I've ever tasted one but there's a first time for everything.
You're a snake lover and I respect your opinion. With that being said, Michigan has it's own lyme disease vectors along the western coast line from the Ohio border to the top of the state but yet all the counties eastward have as yet no evidence of Lyme, especially since we have no rattlesnakes here in Michigan.
As much as I don't wish to disagree with you, I suspect this study from the outset was designed with the purpose to reintroduce an alleged endangered species in order to control a contrived crisis........
The snakes I hate are the side winders we had at Twenty-nine Palms. There is something just wrong about a snake that can outrun you.
It’s so amusing when someone has utterly no valid or sane argument to support them, that they resort to ad hominem.
It’s a pity that sad misinterpretation of what I said is all you can come up with.
Comprehension is your friend.
The connection between the eradication of CT’s rattlesnakes predates this thing they’re trying to do by quite a few years.
My point was, had CT not utterly annihilated the main vector eater, perhaps Lyme would not be everywhere, now.
Maybe we should all start propagating possums.
:)
I'll be more than happy to provide you with all the possums you want........you just pay the shipping. LOL!
As a side note,I have a couple skunks that may be living under my deck or my neighbor’s that I could send for free....LOL!
I also created the Coachwhip Club many years ago. To become a member, you must catch a coachwhip, and have it bite you. Funny thing is, it's an extremely easy club to enter. Why? Because if you can actually catch a coachwhip, it will ALWAYS bite you. Last year was a banner year. We had four new, young field biologists become members! Haha!
All the best, Salamander!
Actually, I would be overjoyed to have them!
[the skunks, not so much]
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Wow, what a thrill those must have been.
I get giddy if I see a Garter or Milk Snake in my yard.
I have loved snakes ever since I was very small girl, much to the horror of my severely phobic dad.
My parents learned to dread my return, every time I went to play in the woods or fields.
I rarely came home alone.
To them, the words “Guess what I got” was tantamount to the first line in every horror story ever told.
;D
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