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....those of us... "in the know"...have long scoffed at occasional tales (tails) usually by hardrock miners or ranchers who are long baked in the sun...of the dreaded "sonoran no-headed snake", sometimes refered to as the "2 tailed snake"...

I was absolutely blown away to capture what appears to be an adult specimen this past week. It had just stung a horse in a corral which promtly bloated up & died...

Hooking & tailing is a 50/50 proposition w/ these beasts...cuz if you do reach for the wrong tail...you too will soon be bloated...

Taxonomy for this beast is still being unraveled, like the monster, it has no vent on either end...so its toxicity likely continues to increase throughout its life...

Too funny JG. Bravo.

...a man of science weighing in (from sampling the nite life along the beaches of the frontera....)...several of the unwashed were timid enough to single email me...none seem to wish to confront their own public horrors...why... grown men get queezy at sundown... & snivel for my cot (why do you fools think I sleep in one...)
Even Dr Hubbs is fully perplexed by this strand...

fully nauseated is more like it. Ya know, Gunn, you really need to lay off those potatobugs. I seriously think they might be affecting your gray-matter. Not your hair, I'm talking about brains here. Anyway, I've seen many of those 2-tailed whip lungers before, but most were in my comode.

Thats disgusting, it looks like a botfly larvae in the final stages of genesis. Why do you torture those poor things so? LMAOAW!!!

Ciao
B

Way to much time on your hands LOL. Nice find though, I hope you used your gentle giants for that one, can you send me some good head sho, well i mean tail shots of that one LOL, roots
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...Yikes I thought Id gone over the top on that offering; that DoR splendida...nice color match eh!, but in my defense...one of the ?'s I am intreagued by is can & do snakes evaluate prey size suitability? Do they learn & will this result in changes in behavior over time? A well fed snake shouldnt perceive the need to perform the desperate acts that typically lean wild ones we know will resort to; for example the recent python/alligator incident in Fl.

Anyway, update; In a mere 4 days shes gone from immobilized & grossly distended, to rapidly out-processing it, going into blue, & for the last 2 days has been able to crawl about again.

Pretty incredible machines... RxR