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Rattlesnake Island: The Facts, Fear and Reality
WWLP ^ | April 28, 2016 | Ryan Walsh

Posted on 04/29/2016 6:59:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: Salamander

So are you in the Coachwhip Club..? :^)


61 posted on 04/30/2016 8:23:31 PM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Flycatcher

Sadly, no.

We don’t have them here.

The closest I have seen would be Black Racers.

Come to think of it, for whatever reason, none of the snakes I caught and brought home ever bit me.

I would have to say my favorite wild snake is the Ringneck.

They are such naturally docile, beautiful little worms.

:)


62 posted on 05/01/2016 12:17:50 AM PDT by Salamander (We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
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“The diet of the ring-necked snake consists primarily of smaller salamanders, earthworms, and slugs, but they also sometimes eat lizards, frogs, and some juvenile snakes of other species”

Salamanders. ha.


63 posted on 05/01/2016 9:23:17 AM PDT by Pelham (Trump/Tsoukalos 2016 - vote the great hair ticket)
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To: MrEdd

We came up on 10 foot rattler and my wife yelled “Get the pistol, get th pistol!”

I jumped out of the truck, ran up to the snake and chased him off the road. Very interesting rattler, huge and fast.

She asked whether I had lost my mind and I replied that I had been around snakes a lot, had kept them in my bedroom. Thought seriously about herpetology as a living.

Funny stuff.


64 posted on 05/03/2016 4:59:38 AM PDT by buffaloguy
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