While not "scientific" by any means, I did offer some live feeders to some adult Eastern Diamondback X Canebrake hybrids I had and was amazed at the almost instantaneous paralysis and death that followed a glancing bite. Of course you couldn't come to any conclusions from this with so many variables not being known but it was rather impressive to say the least. The only crotalids I had seen with the same ability to kill that quickly were South GA Canebrakes from Brooks Co. (where some of the canbraketoxin animals are found) and one Eastern Diamondback from the panhandle of FL along the coast. I know that the two adult hybrids I have worked with don't have the placid demeanor sometimes seen with Cottonmouths. They are very nervous and vigorously defensive

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