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Herpetology Question: Name that Snake
Nature's Bounty ^ | Vanity

Posted on 05/14/2011 4:05:00 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets

Does anyone know the species? He's sitting across the road from our driveway and my wife is terrified of him. Yeah, that's the ticket, he scares my wife. He's HUGH and SERIES, almost three feet long!



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Any herpetologists care to chime in?
1 posted on 05/14/2011 4:05:01 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Personally: I’d vote for “dead” or whatever he latin term might be.


2 posted on 05/14/2011 4:07:05 PM PDT by norton
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Diamondback watersnake


3 posted on 05/14/2011 4:07:17 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter ( ma)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I think it’s a black racer...I think scarey but not dangerous


4 posted on 05/14/2011 4:07:33 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Northern Water Snake

http://www.masnakes.org/snakes/northern_water/index.html

Just leave it be.


5 posted on 05/14/2011 4:08:28 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
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To: LibFreeOrDie

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g73/da8t-rex/NorthernWater9.jpg


6 posted on 05/14/2011 4:09:54 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

What part of the country?


7 posted on 05/14/2011 4:10:28 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Copperhead.


8 posted on 05/14/2011 4:10:33 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

A watersnake variety judging by the color and pattern of the markings. And a male.


9 posted on 05/14/2011 4:11:22 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: LibFreeOrDie

Your link to “Snakes of Massachusetts” is incomplete. It does not show the John Kerry, the Barney Frank, the Niki Tsongas, the Sal DiMasi, nor any of the other deadly snakes of the Commonwealth.


10 posted on 05/14/2011 4:11:40 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (Obama makes me miss Jimmah Cahtah!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I live in Texas. My guess would be a cottonmouth aka water moccasin, if I saw something that looked like that. Also, I would pick up the nearest hoe and separate the snake’s head from it’s body. Country folk take no chances where poisonous or possibly poisonous snakes are concerned.


11 posted on 05/14/2011 4:12:16 PM PDT by bigredkitty1 (March 5,2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I’d name him Herbert.


12 posted on 05/14/2011 4:12:23 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (when liberals rant, it's called free speech; when conservatives vent, it's called hate speech.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Awww how cute!!!


13 posted on 05/14/2011 4:12:27 PM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: LibFreeOrDie; Lonesome in Massachussets

“If cornered, they do not hesitate to strike. Water snakes can almost always be counted on to bite, defecate and spray a particularly foul-smelling musk when handled.”

Yeah, I’d leave him alone


14 posted on 05/14/2011 4:12:33 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

lol!!!


15 posted on 05/14/2011 4:12:40 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (where is the Great Santini when we need him??)
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To: LibFreeOrDie

I believe that you nailed it. We live next to a pond, and the ground a few feet off the road is generally muddy, leading to a drainage brook.


16 posted on 05/14/2011 4:13:02 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Yeah, a deadly python-anaconda hybrid. Or a Yankee watersnake.


17 posted on 05/14/2011 4:13:02 PM PDT by Palter (If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it. ~ Mark Twain)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

LOL! Very good.


18 posted on 05/14/2011 4:13:11 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
...that would be...

...Mr No-Shoulders...

...let him be...

...he won't bother anybody...

19 posted on 05/14/2011 4:13:14 PM PDT by cyberaxe (....Uuuummpphhhh.....)
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To: Winstons Julia
I’d name him Herbert.

Why? Because Obama is already taken?

20 posted on 05/14/2011 4:14:15 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 843 of our national holiday from reality. - OBL Dead? The TSA can go away!)
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