Herp dee derp!
Posted on 04/27/2017 12:23:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The latest confounding image being shared on social media also teaches an important lesson – when hiking in areas with venomous snakes, don’t assume you’ll be able to see it before it’s too late.
Still not convinced? Join the people who have been trying to find the snake lurking in this Twitter photo posted Sunday by snake biologist Helen Plylar, according to Mashable.
“Received this from a fellow HERper this morning. No caption needed, the task was implied: “can you spot the snake?”
Helen🐍👩🏼🔬 @SssnakeySci Received this from a fellow HERper this morning. No caption needed, the task was implied: "can you spot the snake?" 🐍 7:16 AM - 23 Apr 2017 5,740 5,740 Retweets 22,903 22,903 likes Somewhere in the photo, which Plylar said was sent to her by a man in Texas named Jerry Davis, is a copperhead snake.
“Cute but venomous, so no touchy!” Helen tweeted.
Since the photo went viral, Plylar pinned this tweet to her account after receiving at least one photo of a dead snake:
Helen🐍👩🏼🔬 @SssnakeySci For everyone enjoying this puzzle, please remember: Snakes deserve to live just as we do. Treat them with care & respect, not hate & fear. https://twitter.com/SssnakeySci/status/856149745827491840 … 8:29 AM - 25 Apr 2017 106 106 Retweets 239 239 likes
Still can’t find it and ready to jump to the answer? Scroll down to see the copperhead:
Hate snakes.
Period.
Snakes do NOT get a break around my place.
All I see is leaves......and a kangaroo.
I’m really good at those ink blot tests. Took a lot of them at the hospital.
Took forever to find, but i’d of stepped on it on a trail run. Hopefully fast enough to fly past it. but sheeeeeesh!!!
Damn!
red against yellow can kill a fellow.... dang!
That particular snake is common around here. Those leaves and plants look exactly like the trails on my daughter’s land.
We were hiking there last summer and ran into a copperhead sunning himself on the trail.
Son-in-law shot it. They have rattlesnakes and cottonmouths as well..................
I see it.
That’s what I call camouflage!
It would have gotten me.
I used to live in the Canal Zone. On a hike one of my friends told me that there was a vine viper just in front of me. I looked and looked, but couldn’t see it - - - until he poked it with a stick.
Damned thing was three feet from me and I couldn’t see it, even with the warning.
That’s not it. Look at the tail of the arrow that is pointing up and to the left. Then look a few inches to the left of that. You can see him coiled up in the leaves.
I had to look back and forth 4 tines to finally see it. Amazing camouflage. I would be dead.
Yep, I’m dead too
Yes, I don’t
dat’s a good boy, King Snake, eats poisonous snakes!
Good pick.
My wife and I were walking on a pathway in a state park many years ago. We suddenly heard the rattle of a rattlesnake. We both froze. We looked all around and could not see it. After a while, I decided the only safe way out was to backtrack on the steps we made getting there. We slowly backed up until we felt we were safe and turned around and ran. We never did see the snake, but we made it out OK.
A favorite with the snake handler crowd, a bite is very unlikely to kill you.
It'll necrotize your lip though...
Nope...I can't see it...so I'll just napalm the whole damn forest.
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