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LarryF
at Sun Aug 27 23:54:04 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by LarryF ]
You're sort of both right. Venomous snakes can control how much if any venom they inject and it's not terribly unusual for someone to receive a "dry bite" (no venom injected). On the other hand, probably a majority of "copperheads" and "cottonmouths" people report seeing are watersnakes.
So, in the absence of obvious fang marks, a captured snake or identification on the scene by a competent individual, I would highly suspect a snake reported as a copperhead or cottonmouth that bit but caused no effect to be a watersnake.
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