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snake id (copper head?)

cornbreadandmilk

cornbreadandmilk

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caught by my cousin in central Alabama
I think its a copper head
he says rat snake
this is the only pic Ive seen he says it has (VERTICAL SLIT PUPILS )



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+1 copper head
 
Vertical slit pupils and no rattle in Alabama should spell Agkistrodon (copperheads/moccasins). Really pretty banding on that one, but I wouldn't bare hand it!
 
Chip said:
Vertical slit pupils and no rattle in Alabama should spell Agkistrodon (copperheads/moccasins). Really pretty banding on that one, but I wouldn't bare hand it!
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he has been holding it all day and wont listen to me not sure what do to
 
cornbreadandmilk said:
he has been holding it all day and wont listen to me not sure what do to
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Tell him it's been identified as a venomous snake and quit fooling with it. Tell him to put it in a cage and go get a live hopper and put it in with it and call back and let you know what happened.

When he tells you the snake bit the mouse and it died tell him to go ahead and pick it up if he wants to go where the mouse did.
 
BTW- I want to PM my address so he can go buy a lottery ticket and send it to me. It's definitely his lucky day (so far).
 
(Any snake can and _will_ make its head into a triangle shape to scare people off).

I can't see the pupils, but that is a heavy-bodied snake, very typical of a copperhead. A same-length ratsnake would be thin like a piece of rope.
 
My vet tells a story of a guy who brought in a coral snake, and ID'd it as a king snake. He insisted that he'd had it for years, and his kids handled it all the time.
 
I would like to see better pics of it myself. IF it is a copperhead is one of the weirdest ones I have seen.
 
Nanci said:
(Any snake can and _will_ make its head into a triangle shape to scare people off).

I can't see the pupils, but that is a heavy-bodied snake, very typical of a copperhead. A same-length ratsnake would be thin like a piece of rope.
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True- but when a non- venomous snake does that they have to get the mass from somewhere, they" flatten" their heads. In other words from a top view, their heads look triangular but from the side they get thinner. This snake has too thick a head profile for that.

Rat snakes are pretty thin but can appear larger if recently fed.But rat snakes have a big head that makes their bodies look slimmer. They also aren't known for head flattening as much as posing, biting and tail rattling.
 
This is my vote (Nerodia fasciata) southern water snake
 

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Not a good pic, but here is a young copperhead from here in Ky.
 

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Watersnakes always have those bug-eyes. Like the snake in question. Plus- you see them with those aberrant aztec markings.
 
Would like to cross it with this one found here in Ky. They call it tiger striped copperhead.
 

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