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Published: 2006-10-02 23:27:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 734; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 11
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Smile for the Camera please. XD This is a Cottonmouth (water moccasin) we discovered while setting up the bat nets. It was swimming through through river water, so a grad student who was there with us jumped in after it and flung it ashore using a stick (almost flining the snake on us, I might add). Then he pinned the snake and we shoved it in an ice chest overnight. The next day it was all cooled down and inactive and floating on the water, so our resident herp professor showed it to us. And then it started to move, so it was "back into the box" with the snake. lolRelated content
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We let the opossum and the lizard go after the trip was over, but we chloroformed the snake. It is currently sitting in a jar in the Zoology laboratory here at school for educational purposes. I kinda feel bad for the snake, but I think the fact that we saw 4 other cottonmouths in the short time we were there speaks volumes about their population on the ranch. 
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I gues that's ok
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Yep, I was right there when they caught it. It was very cool. You'd think that the plates on their backs would be hard, but they're actually leathery. 
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I'd love to see an armadillo!
what color was the lizard???
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Umm, it was mostly brownish greenish, with some irridescent blue stripes down its side, and it also had pretty spikey scales (I was the first to grab him, so I got to feel the spikes pretty well). He was pretty cool to look at. You know, you see a lot of lizard at pet stores and places like that, but to see one in the wild is a completely different thing.
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your trip sounds realy fun! lizards are cool!
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Its a snake!!!!! I love snakes, though I've never tried to go after those nice poisonous ones like that. I've seen them, but I'd rather keep his fangs out of my skin. He looks kinda creepy in that shot though. Are you guys planning on letting him back into the lake or are you going to keep him?
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We ended up keeping the snake. I believe we chloroformed it and put it into an alcohol container for future use in our herpetology class here at school. Yeah, I think it's cool that we caught this snake, but thre was no way I was going to get near it. Like you said, I'd rather keep his fangs out of my skin.
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yeah, you do kinda feel sorry for the snake, but by th elook of him he seems to be pretty old, so he had a good run. -points down at post below-
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thats scary .. i wouldnt mess with such a venomous animal .. yous are brave!
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Hehe... You can call me brave, I guess, But I came nowhere near touching that snake. I'm not stupid! 
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around here we have a bunch of snakes but I only know how to tell two and I always confuse the two.. Garter snake and Ribbon snake they look almost Identical and I just looooove finding them because they are pretty much harmless although they can draw blood if they bite it doesnt hurt at all I never felt it. I just hate the stinky stuff they piss out all over you ahhaa
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I have to admit, I'm not very good with snakes either. I know the Western diamondback rattlesnake, the water mocassin, and...well, I guess the black mamba in Africa, and...yeah, that's about it I think.
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ehhehe i know lots of different species if I seen them but not local species and they are all pretty much venomous.. i watch a lot of animal planet and discovery channel ahha
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