Posted on 07/28/2014 11:46:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Ping
Animal loves heat; animal no longer found at the northern edge of its (Northern Hemishpere) range; maybe the climate is getting colder? Nah, instead let’s look for a far less plausible reason.
Oh, and of course there’s no climate-related reason that a multi-colored ectothermic animal might be developing a greater percentage of the color that maximizes heat absorption.
And I thought this was going to be about James Carville or Valerie Jarrett.
“They generally have heavy bodies, arrowhead-shaped heads and favor earth tones.
Coral and Thcarlet King Thnakes, however, are jutht *fabulouth*.
It tends to backfire as blithering idiot ophidiophobes "mistake" them for, amazingly, Copperheads.
Because, you know, they look exactly alike...:-\
North Carolina is welcome to ours. We won’t miss them at all. Plenty of other snakes around here.
Nc is close to dc....
Lots of impersonating serpents there...
Same with the poor brown water snake here in Georgia.
Yup.
We have those and they get killed as “Water Moccasins” even though we have NO Water Moccasins here at all.
I vividly recall my dad yelling “Cottonmouth” while we were fishing in Sleepy Creek WV, right before he killed it.
Corn Snakes were all Copperheads, too.
I suspect that may have started my lifelong sympathy for snakes.
Many a time he’d spot some poor thing slithering in the yard and run to find something to kill it with.
During that few seconds, I’d snatch it up and run across the road and fling it into the woods.
When he came back, he’d ask where it was.
I’d just shrug.
A couple years ago, a water snake was making its way down the stream beside my house, headed right toward the neighbor who kills snakes.
I had to walk along beside it, urging it to hurry up to where the two streams converge so it could slip into the culvert and make it to the other side without the neighbor noticing.
Good thing he’s used to my “weird wanderings” or he might have gotten suspicious.
“North Carolina is welcome to ours. We won’t miss them at all. Plenty of other snakes around here.”
We don’t miss them, you can keep yours and have our copperheads.
My wife was walking through our carport at night with sandals on when she stepped on a copperhead that was warming itself on the cement. It bit her pretty bad.
Had to get the anti-venom shot. $25,000 for one shot at Duke University Hospital.
And here I was taught many animals, certainly canines were color blind.
Guess they can discern 50 shades of grey.
That Evolution fella sure is smart.
Would anyone care to explain why a predator with zero experience with a coral snake would honor its threat?
That’s a picture of a king snake, not a coral snake.
LOL!
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