What kind of snake is this?

Humblegunner's yard | 5/09/09 | humblegunner

[humblegunner]

This afternoon I happened to look out the back and saw something
black and long in the middle of the yard. I just mowed yesterday
so I knew the yard was free of sticks and such.

Turns out it was a big black snake!

He isn't a rattler, does not look loke a water moccasin or a black snake.

What the heck kind of snake is he? He has the triangular head which
means he is a bad one, but I can't place his breed.

Anyway, photography being as dangerous as it is, he got wrecked up some
which is just as well. He might have bitten one of the animals.

So who knows any herpetology?

[edzo4]

we have been thru this b4 i know,
it is also Nazi not nazi, are you slipping?

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

If you look at pic 2 at the top of the thread and this :

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geu5kySQdKCLUAAatXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzcWtwOXAzBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMwRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkA1NTMDFfMTI2/SIG=11pmvbgva/EXP=1242077874/**http%3a//www.wf.net/~snake/moccasin.htm

It should prove that both are cotton mouths,,,

“Western Cottonmouth, piscivorus leucostoma (pictured on this page), “

Notice the heads,,,

I’m 60yo+ from Louisiana and have killed many of them,,,

Where are you from if ya’ don’t mind me askin’ ?...;0)

[humblegunner]

it is also Nazi not nazi, are you slipping?

Just testing.

So.. if you know better, why do you write like a thirteen year old retarded kid?

Is it lack of education, inability to use a keyboard, laziness or what?

[davetex]

Got any cotton tails around your place? They know what to do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtcZh4isLvc

I never laughed so hard.

[Admin Moderator]

Careful, noodles...

[humblegunner]

My bad.

Still hyped up over the terrorsnake I suppose.

[edzo4]

ok now that I know you are a 'big' guy do you look more like this guy?

Or this guy?

[Eaker]

Here is a pic of snake ribs to smooth ruffled feathers.

[humblegunner]

You spent some time on that!

I'm flattered by the attention!

[Eaker]

Well your surfing habits are pretty clear!

Note to gunner...... avoid this lil’ fella!

[eastforker]

Dude edzoe, you went over the line. Would you kindly remove the pics labeled as humblegunner in the properties?Also ed, when are you gonna realize you were wrong about the snake?It was a stinking old cotton mouth that no one needs in their back yard.Why are you so stubborn to not understand that?

[Domestic Church]

I took a field herpetology course over 30 years ago but the head is not a black rat snake, you are right, the head looks like a viper head even though the body looks like a common rat snake.

[humblegunner]

the head looks like a viper head even though the body looks like a common rat snake.

Thus my confusion.

It's better dead at any rate.

[TheMom]

the head looks like a viper head even though the body looks like a common rat snake.

Could be the snake had recently eaten.

[Domestic Church]

I’ve got plenty of rat snakes on our rural property and even have one loose in the house down stairs in the basement from the skin we find ever year. I’ve watched them eat with my kids...the head shape is different from the pictures shown at the beginning of the thread.

[txhurl]

Who knew killing a snake would cause such a ruckus???

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Well, to be transparent, I very well might try to capture a snake I know not to be poisonous.

If I ran across yours, not only would I not be alarmed as it’s like no moccasin I’ve ever seen, I’d additionally probably mess with it as I’ve never seen anything like it.

[humblegunner]

I’d additionally probably mess with it as I’ve never seen anything like it.

And that is why it is dead.

Better safe than sorry. It was a big sucker and looked like it could kill my cats.

On my property? Death sentence.

[txhurl]

Oh, no argument on the sentence and execution, I just really, really want to get that snake IDd as I don’t fear it and need to know if I should.

Snakes move around. While the US technically has 4 poisonous types of vipers, not true, as we import all of Mexico’s tiny little deadly vipers, in fact a woman was killed by one a few years back in one of our grocery stores while husking some Mexican corn.

Hey, man, just fedex me the snake on ice. I’ll figure this out.

[humblegunner]

Hey, man, just fedex me the snake on ice. I’ll figure this out.

Sucker is rolling along the bottom of the San Jacinto river now
or has perhaps reached the gulf. Fish food, one way or the other.

I'll keep an eye out for his kinfolks, though.

You'll be first in line to receive a biological sample.

[GOPJ]

The first two “fish” I caught as a little child were cottonmouths. I don’t remember if it was at Sam Houston State or Dave Crockett State Park. My mom cut off their heads with a machete. I had quite the mom!

I hope you got some really nice stuff for Mom today - she's earned the best.