I'm not necessarily on a high horse, I just expect better out of the venomous snake community.

The problem I had in the photo was that if it was a live snake, it could have easily landed a fang in the individual holding it. Copperheads are notorious for pushing fangs through their lower jaw at times. I've seen them do it, others that work with copperheads have seen them do it, and I've seen it mentioned in the literature several times as well as on message boards. I'm not putting him down for doing a head grab on the animal as I know it is sometimes needed (although rarely). I admit I've probably done that at least 200 times in the last year on copperheads (getting measurements from my study population).

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