Medina county rough greensnake
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quote:had no idea WTF this is until a google search but appears you are correct
#2 is a Taylor's Cantil
#4 a Cottonmouth??
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That was a new one for me, too. You can tell they are a cousin of the cottonmouth by their appearance.
quote:Had it just eaten or was it one of those short, fat yellow belly water snakes that has a dark line along its eyes?
shout out to all the photographers ITT. I just tried to take a picture of a (really really fat) yellow belly watersnake that i caught on my trotline but its not worth posting. I was admittedly shaking in my boots but still, not sure how yall guys get these HD pics.
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Oh I see the beads now... So I'm going to say:
3. ridge nosed rattlesnake even though it looks a little off on the pattern but I can't think of another rattler with a white lip like that which would make the other one a rock rattlesnake for sure.
quote:No. Snakes have very little pressure in their bites.
I love this thread and would like some clarification from the experts. Long story so basic question is can a rattlesnake bite break a bone? When I was about 7 or 8 I took a summer herpatolgy class. I remember being in the building on the muni golf course in bryan. 2nd floor of a building near where the pool used to be as well as being on campus in a massive, to my young mind, classroom. The instructor was a skinny guy with a beard. Well between classes he went to a rattlesnake roundup in west Texas and came back with a cast. He said it was from a bite. Almost 40 years later I'm wondering if he was joking with us. Forgot to mention it was his arm.
quote:not bone breaking force. Not that I have first hand experience, but the physics just aren't there, they don't weigh all that much.
What about just the strike?
What kinda force are we talking about their head slamming into you?
quote:quote:not bone breaking force. Not that I have first hand experience, but the physics just aren't there, they don't weigh all that much.
What about just the strike?
What kinda force are we talking about their head slamming into you?
quote:not short at all, it had just swallowed a 6 inch tilapia and an 8/0 circle hook but it was still fat enough that i considered he might have been a water moccasin. We have millions of tilapia in the lake and ive been watching the snakes hunt them along the bank at night, kinda sorry i caught him cause i prefer non-venomous snakes over tilapia.quote:Had it just eaten or was it one of those short, fat yellow belly water snakes that has a dark line along its eyes?
shout out to all the photographers ITT. I just tried to take a picture of a (really really fat) yellow belly watersnake that i caught on my trotline but its not worth posting. I was admittedly shaking in my boots but still, not sure how yall guys get these HD pics.