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Apparently Ask dot com...thought this was an acceptable advertisement.
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"What is man without the beasts?
If all the beasts were gone,
men would die from great loneliness of spirit.
For what happens to the beasts,
soon happens to men.
All things are connected."
-Chief Seattle (Duwamish Tribe)
Yea but if you went to it it said this......
You should not try to handle a venomous snake if you don't have any formal training in doing so.
No harm if you ask me.
I agree with the previous post. I don't see anything wrong with the ad or the answer.
John
I personally don't like the advertisment at all.
I also find it amusing they put a Non-Venomous Snake on that picture.
Although, I do like the answer.
They could've worded it differntly, like, "What do you do if you come across a Venomous Snake".
Or something along those lines.
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Josh Molone
looks like a non-hooded up cobra to me.....
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Yea not sure about cobra, kinda like a Cottonmouth/moccasin to me, but anyways it does look like a venomous snake to me too.
no where close to either lol, we have both around here, neither have circular pupils. cobras however do
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Ha! I didn't even look at the pupils, just the facial scales/coloration.
Looks like a pissed off rat snake to me.
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Exactly what came to mind whenever I saw the picture.
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Josh Molone
After really looking at the scalation again, I'm thinking it could be some sort of Naja, though that is a really odd position for it to be in-almost like it was up against glass. that really illustrates the problem though. That old world elapid looks enough like a new world colubrid that anyone who didn't know any batter, upon seeing that ad, might assume that the baird's rat in their yard is deadly. perhaps better wording for the ad would have been "what do you do if you encounter a deadly snake" with a picture of an easily identifiable viper species.
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Its a COBRA.
Wow, I feel really dumb right now!
I apolgoize for my stupidity, although I too thought it was a pissed off Coulubrid.
My mistake.
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Josh Molone
Not a naja, most likely one of the pseudonaja sp. Probably affinis.
Very difficult to ID those Australian elapids with such a limited photo
It's a roughie. Tropidechis carinatus.
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