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Calparsoni
at Thu Aug 26 07:58:32 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Calparsoni ]
In all fairness That's asking a bit much from the talking heads who read from a teleprompter. All kidding aside most people just aren't into snakes on that level to be able to tell the difference between a bullsnake and a corn snake.
BTW did you ever have that old field guide to reptiles and amphibians that had drawings of the snakes instead of photos (I think it was put out by golden books...I still have pieces of my 30 year old original copy floating around.) I can remember growing up in texas and catching bull snakes and looking them up in the field guide (my other bible.) and thinking from the pics and the range maps that showed rat snakes ranging into our area that they could be corn snakes and not bull snakes. It was not until a few years later that I found out that corn snakes don't range into south texas and the bull snakes where I lived had some serious red coloration to them that would put some red rats to shame. Not to mention those drawings weren't the best reference out there. So I could see this confusion, I mean I wouldn't know one football player from the next.
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RE: MA Press: The Great Snake Debate - Calparsoni, Thu Aug 26 07:58:32 2010