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Man Hand Feeds Bluegill to Wild Water Moccasin
liveleak.com/ ^ | 10/10/16 | Liveleak

Posted on 10/10/2016 7:57:04 PM PDT by Rebelbase

This video freaks me out. Insane. Can't fix stupid.

Video Here.


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: insane; whocares; wildlife
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To: Salamander

As the mother of a four-year-old girl, I can affirm that “Ouch!” is exactly the right word. She makes my fillings vibrate.


41 posted on 10/11/2016 2:51:24 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("So we do nothing as the rendezvous with financial collapse gets ever closer."~VDH)
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To: Salamander

That’s the one.


42 posted on 10/11/2016 5:34:11 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: Salamander

Sorry bud - I’ve seen it happen


43 posted on 10/11/2016 6:03:58 PM PDT by HonkyTonkMan
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To: HonkyTonkMan

44 posted on 10/11/2016 8:22:35 PM PDT by Salamander (More deplorable than deplorable...)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
OMG...the killer Running Water Cotton Snakes are invading Sarasota FL, en masse, with mayhem on their minds!

Snakepocalypse

45 posted on 10/11/2016 9:19:25 PM PDT by Salamander (More deplorable than deplorable...)
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To: HonkyTonkMan; Salamander

She ain’t a “bud.” :-P


46 posted on 10/11/2016 9:27:59 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: Salamander

I’m surprised they didn’t manage to blame Trump for it in the article.


47 posted on 10/11/2016 9:29:05 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I’m your bud.

;)


48 posted on 10/11/2016 9:40:25 PM PDT by Salamander (More deplorable than deplorable...)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

The night is young...give ‘em time.

;D

[they blamed it on the cold snap...which of course, was caused by global warming, which also, of course, Trump calls hogwash, therefore, Trump is responsible, by extrapolation]


49 posted on 10/11/2016 9:42:35 PM PDT by Salamander (More deplorable than deplorable...)
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To: Salamander

Well, aren’t you sweet. ;-D


50 posted on 10/11/2016 9:57:40 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: Tax-chick

That is incorrect

They are the most aggressive North American snake

I’ve almost been bitten many times

Friends bitten

Even Steve Irwin refused to handle them freehand


51 posted on 10/11/2016 10:37:45 PM PDT by wardaddy (the traitorous GOPe deserves Third of May 1808 if ever a party did....)
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To: Salamander

Lol


52 posted on 10/11/2016 10:38:37 PM PDT by wardaddy (the traitorous GOPe deserves Third of May 1808 if ever a party did....)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Eh...not really.

:D


53 posted on 10/11/2016 10:53:54 PM PDT by Salamander (More deplorable than deplorable...)
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To: Salamander

This one is baffling

They aren’t serious fighting or they’d be biting

Amazing

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YHA81Tfk3og


54 posted on 10/11/2016 11:01:42 PM PDT by wardaddy (the traitorous GOPe deserves Third of May 1808 if ever a party did....)
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To: wardaddy

It’s a mating ritual.

Most people do not know that snakes only have a finite amount of venom reserves, at any given time.

But the snakes know this, therefore, they are loathe to ‘waste’ it by wantonly biting anything/everything that frightens them.

Every single time they do actually envenom something, they must then wait for the venom glands to produce *more*, which renders them temporarily defenseless, and it is *not* a particularly rapid process.

For the want of better analogy, they never waste their ammo.

Hence, all the instances of “dry bites”, where the snake simply seeks to frighten a predator, rather than kill it.

Every snake bite is a defensive bite, *never* an offensive one.

Snakes just don’t work that way.

They are well aware of their own limitations.

Regarding the video, it’s pretty kinky to see two different snakes battling it out for mating rights to a girl who has a 50% chance of not being one of their own kind.

[not that there’s any wrong with *that*]

:D


55 posted on 10/11/2016 11:12:45 PM PDT by Salamander (More deplorable than deplorable...)
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To: Salamander; blam; chasio649; Pelham; Black Agnes

You’re right that cottonmouths are overrated as chasers

I think their stark slimy appearance and ribbon like squirmyness and quickness plus how they blend into the primordial muck makes them appear more ominous

They are like owls

By the time you see one up close he’s testing the air in your direction ready to hit

Being raised amongst cypress balds and mossy treed swamps in Mississippi and Alabama they were a fixture for us growing up

I’ve seen hundreds in the wild and almost bit as in truly almost 3-4 times and yes because I was on top of them

I was stringing old 36 inch pipe on three mile creek in mobile Alabama after Frederick came thru in 1980 and we scooped up a nest of them

Literally over 50 snakes in a medusa like clump scurrying everywhere on the creek sandy bank

They were scurrying in their chilly slumber

I lept upon the four foot tracks of the excavator

I had just been in that very hole stringing that section with a wire sling

A friend of mine was bit swimming and another catfishing

I give them a berth

Do copperheads and cottonmouths interbreed or is that light one a highland moccasin ?

That was our term for the lighter pattern water moccasin

I just remembered I had a friend bit near here in 2012 bush hogging and got out to untangle baling wire from the blade

He killed the snake with his pocket knife and got bit a couple more times and took it to the hospital to prove identity for the antivenin

He’s a self made home builder and he’s done real well but his redneck still rises to the top .. He’s pretty tough

He is from Yazoo city originally and ironically like you he’s a herp aficionado...grew up collecting all manner of snakes near Panther Burn

He was shocked he got bit by a water moccasin high on dry ground in the middle of a cow pasture several 100 feet above closest water source

I respect cottonmouths

They are as much a symbol of Dixie as a gator or a Kappa Delta


56 posted on 10/12/2016 8:31:16 AM PDT by wardaddy (the traitorous GOPe deserves Third of May 1808 if ever a party did....)
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To: wardaddy

Three Mile Creek...you really have been in my neck of the woods. Think that is my water supply if not mistaken. I’m not too far from Prichard ;)

Those cotton mouths freak me out...When bass fishing, i have seen them roll and roll with a bream in their mouth...Kinda creepy....Don’t know how they eat a fish that size actually.


57 posted on 10/12/2016 1:42:40 PM PDT by chasio649 (Donald Trump is not the president we need, he is the president SJWs deserve)
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