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RobertPreston
at Mon Aug 28 11:44:09 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by RobertPreston ]
Water snakes are also pretty nasty creatures in their own right. They look a lot like cottonmouths to the untrained eye, and they are agressive and have large teeth. They can really inflict a mean bite. I captured a banded water snake a few months ago, and I showed it to my neighbor. He thought it was a cottonmouth and, even after I showed him it wasn't venomous, he was still very uneasy around the snake. If you don't know a lot about snakes, water snakes can be easily confused with cottonmouths, especially when they flatten their heads and strike like crazy, which the ones I've encountered almost always do.
RP
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