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Re: please dont hit the snakes!
Reply #20 - 09/24/13 at 3:59pm
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Banjopickin wrote on 09/23/13 at 11:54am:
Best way to tell a CottonMouth from our Northern Water Snake is when swimming, the Cottonmouth almost floats on the water. The entire body is visible above water. The N. Water Snake is the opposite. Their body is almost completely submerged when swimming, with the head mostly above water.

Does this mean you have to be swimming to recognize them?  Shocked
  
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Reply #21 - 09/24/13 at 8:42pm
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Ran into 1 of these guys a couple of months ago, the Eastern Hognose Snake. They could be very easily misidentified as venomous because they mimic one when threatened, and have more of an attitude than most. The one I saw flattened out like a cobra (making his head look very triangular like a venomous snake too), reared up, and struck at the air in our direction while hissing. 

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Reply #22 - 09/25/13 at 1:05am
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nonillogical wrote on 09/24/13 at 8:42pm:
Ran into 1 of these guys a couple of months ago, the Eastern Hognose Snake. They could be very easily misidentified as venomous because they mimic one when threatened, and have more of an attitude than most. The one I saw flattened out like a cobra (making his head look very triangular like a venomous snake too), reared up, and struck at the air in our direction while hissing. 

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I had one of these in the backyard once. 

Man, crazy looking snake and it hissed up a storm.

  
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Reply #23 - 09/25/13 at 2:31am
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The Cycle Path wrote on 09/24/13 at 3:15pm:

Must be from Florida...


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