Snakes!

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[WAB]

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I hate those bastards. Spent three days in the hospital after one nailed me.

 

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[sgt_zim]

I hate those bastards. Spent three days in the hospital after one nailed me.

Gaboon viper?

 

[sgt_zim]

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I note that on the mambas and cobras, the recommendation is to "rush to the hospital," while for all the others, it's "proceed to the hospital."

Keep the victim calm after a mamba/cobra envenomation??? I'm a pretty zen dude, but I'm also pretty sure I wouldn't be very zen if I'd just been envenomated by one of those. Or any of them, for that matter.

 

[Newboomer]

Fascinating to watch but creepy. Pix are about as close as I want to get. I'm lucky where I live, we very seldom have snakes at this elevation.

 

[WAB]

Gaboon viper?

Thankfully no, copperhead, 4 courses of anti-venom before they got it under control.

 

[sgt_zim]

Thankfully no, copperhead, 4 courses of anti-venom before they got it under control.

Never understood how crofab was effective against copperhead venom. It's made from the venom of 3 rattlers and water moccasin

 

[BourbonTrail]

My dad ran into these while clearing some kangaroo rat nests from his back yard. Bigger of the two rattled at him when he was raking a few feet away. Second one came out right after he shot the first.
Western Diamondbacks (although the big one looks a little like a Mojave).

 

[Lee M]

Three rather large garter snakes in the Pocono Mtns area of PA today. Certainly not threatening, especially on the site. Lol. But I’ve never seen three together like this. Probably breeding and the third one is hoping to steal a mate.

 

[WAB]

Never understood how crofab was effective against copperhead venom. It's made from the venom of 3 rattlers and water moccasin

Apparently all three have the same active ingredient in their venom. I learned a lot more about it than I ever wanted to know. I have a 7’ king snake living under my front porch. Freaks the cat out but kills any rattlers or copperheads that come around the house. I call him Karl, we have an understanding.

 

[markm]

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Three rather large garter snakes in the Pocono Mtns area of PA today. Certainly not threatening, especially on the site. Lol. But I’ve never seen three together like this. Probably breeding and the third one is hoping to steal a mate.

Live here to have only seen a few rattle snakes over the years

 

[Doug Hamilton]

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I have no use for a snake! The top photo comes from my h7nting camp in Arkansas and the bottom near a river in South Africa. The top one died shortly after the picture was taken.

"The top one died shortly after the picture was taken." Natural causes I'd guess. That seems to happen a lot around our hunting camp in California too.

 

[CAustin]

"The top one died shortly after the picture was taken." Natural causes I'd guess. That seems to happen a lot around our hunting camp in California too.

Yes indeed!

 

[Cervus elaphus]

I had no idea a snake would eat a snake. Neat. Thanks for posting.

In Australia the red-bellied black snake preys on young brown snakes. The red-belly's numbers are declining though because they haven't learned NOT to eat the poisonous cane toads.

 

[Cervus elaphus]

In Singapore in the 50's I witnessed a fight between a mongoose and smallish cobra. Mongoose won because they are so fast. There were a lot of cobras in the camp where I was, and just about every day you could hear the call "Ulah besar !" (big snake). At night we would carry a torch and big stick and tap the ground ahead as the snakes would come onto the tarseal at night for the warmth.

 

[Cervus elaphus]

Australia king brown or mulga snake. This female was crossing the track near a lake at Narrandera in NSW. How big?, maybe 8 feet. I carry a snake bite kit in my SUV

 

[Red Leg]

A mamba doing a pretty good impersonation of a U-boat was the most frightening African experience I have had (in this thread somewhere). However, the most lethal looking serpent that I have ever seen was, without a doubt, a Gaboon viper in Mozambique. A mamba seems almost intelligent - a Gaboon viper seems simply horror movie lethal.