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'Huge' rattlesnake stuns Florida golfers with ‘unusual’ appearance on course
FoxNews.com ^ | Oct 20, 2018 | Madeline Farber

Posted on 10/20/2018 10:40:35 AM PDT by ETL

Golfers in St. Petersburg, Florida, were shocked when they saw a massive rattlesnake slither across the course.

Logan Ungerer and some friends were golfing at Mangrove Bay Golf Course on Columbus Day when Ungerer “saw what looked like a stick blowing in the wind on the green,” according to Fox 13.

Upon closer inspection, he realized it wasn’t a stick at all — it was a snake.

The creature was likely a diamondback rattlesnake, David Steen, a conservation biologist, told the Tampa Bay Times. Diamondbacks are said to be the largest venomous snake in North America, reaching up to eight feet in length, National Geographic reports.

Steen called the sighting “unusual.”

"Snakes are typically secretive creatures that have nothing to gain from interacting with people, so it is unusual for a snake like this to be found in the open on a golf course," Steen said. "It is likely that the rattlesnake was simply observed while traveling from one forest patch to another."

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: diamondback; florida; freepun; tasteslikechicken
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To: EEGator

The “mechanics” behind spider and snake movement is nothing short of amazing and miraculous.

God knows what He’s doing.


81 posted on 10/20/2018 5:55:18 PM PDT by Salamander (My Soul's On Fire... [I miss you, Shibumi])
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To: jeffc

Rattlesnakes prey upon the mice who are the vectors for Lyme disease.

Killing them has taken Lyme from a local endemic to a national pandemic.

Much more useful than some stupid belt.


82 posted on 10/20/2018 5:56:54 PM PDT by Salamander (My Soul's On Fire... [I miss you, Shibumi])
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To: ETL

Talking about rattlesnakes is no fun because nobody believes me when I tell them how big a rattler I saw was. Next time, I kill it, and have its body parts to show the non believers.


83 posted on 10/20/2018 5:59:06 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: antidemoncrat
Not to mention rattlesnake meat.

Tastes like tender chicken....yuuuum!

84 posted on 10/20/2018 7:25:36 PM PDT by lightman (Obama's legacy in 13 letters: BLM, ISIS, & ANTIFA. New axis of evil.)
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To: ETL

So THAT'S where my %$@&%$!#* (<== round & white) golf ball went!


       

85 posted on 10/20/2018 7:43:48 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: antidemoncrat
Yep - went to several rattlesnake roundups when I was stationed in Oklahoma..it really does resemble chicken.....

Saw one skin stretched that was about 11 long and 3 feet wide....

86 posted on 10/21/2018 2:28:32 AM PDT by trebb (Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...)
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To: ETL

In order to get a good perspective on just how large that snake was, it was too bad Elizabeth Warren wasn’t around. We could have told her to stand next to the snake and not worry because snakes do not bite Cherokees.


87 posted on 10/21/2018 3:54:36 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try.)
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To: Tenacious 1
Probally full of golf balls... they do look like eggs.
88 posted on 10/23/2018 8:30:24 PM PDT by grayeagle (MAGA)
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