Thanks for the ID. The pictures I saw before posting really didn't show the same pattern. My gf is new to herpetology, so is learning how to deal with overzealous people telling her what they think it is. Uncle's claim: a rattlesnake!
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"The irrational fear of snakes is the only excuse a grown man has... to act like a complete sissy" - Colchicine

... nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature - tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people. When we are afraid, we shoot. But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures.
Susan Sontag

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