Ever encounter a coral snake?

[strantor]

There are several sites (via Google)... here's one that's comprehensive: List of dangerous snakes - Wikipedia and lists according to venom.

"Most deadly vs. most venomous" can be a matter of semantics. :snake:

Well I don't see anything more scholarly than Wikipedia backing up what I said, so I concede.

 

[jaxs]

A couple days ago the news guy said baby copperheads are very active this time of year. Firstly, I thought babies came in the spring.

The weather man must have missed the news but the snakes didn't. http://://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/david-finfrock-recovering-after-being-bitten-by-rattlesnake-monday/2451521/

 

[Stimw]

Last month I was sitting in my screen room and my cat was playing with something behind the Hot Tub.
I looked and found this!
I flung it out the door with a broom and got it in a 5 gal bucket then went to the computer.
Found that if my cat got bit it could take up to 12 hours to effect her. She is OK!
I have killed rattlesnakes, copperheads, cottonmouths and now coral snakes!
Too many animals where I live to let them survive.
A friend had a guy trimming trees 2 weeks ago, he was trimming at ground level when he threw the chainsaw! He hit and killed a 5' cottonmouth! It had babies in it too.

 

[kenmbz]

Garter snake in my pool skimmer yesterday. Was careful getting that out into the bushes.
May not have venom, but those fangs are tiny and sharp.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Back when I was working in the laboratory, we had several Chemists and Engineers that were transferred in from California. Seems everything in Oklahoma scared them; tornadoes and snakes especially. The management invited a Meteorologist to speak to the staff (Welcome to Oklahoma), and later on a Herpetologist. The snake guy gave us a great lecture, and brought some of his pet rattlesnakes with him, demonstrating how they milked them, talked about toxins, etc. He also had a huge rattlesnake that was prepared by a taxidermist, that everyone could get close to and examine. He said that that snake was an old friend; that it was like an old dog it was so gentle...until one day it bit him. He showed pictures of his hand; they had to surgically split the skin to keep it from ripping from the swelling; pretty awful.

Two days later the snake died...kind of man-bites-dog thing. He said he had a vet do an autopsy, and turns out the snake was very sick, which probably prompted the bite. At least he found out the bite didn't kill him, although if it had been me, the snake wouldn't have lasted two minutes, let along 2 days.

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[Jstpssng]

^^^^
OK, that's a bit much. As much as I dislike snakes I can respect other viewpoints. Yet an autopsy to find out why a pet snake died? That's one I will never understand.

 

[strantor]

^^^^
OK, that's a bit much. As much as I dislike snakes I can respect other viewpoints. Yet an autopsy to find out why a pet snake died? That's one I will never understand.

Have you met the chicken people? The people who diapers on chickens (or not) and let them walk around on the dining table? They exist. If they can be real, so can snake autopsy people.

I don't get it either.

 

[Jstpssng]

Have you met the chicken people? The people who diapers on chickens (or not) and let them walk around on the dining table? They exist. If they can be real, so can snake autopsy people.

I don't get it either.

I have heard of them, but don't understand it. Then again some people don't believe that a dog belongs in the house; whereas I don't understand why they would have a dog that spends it's life on a chain.

Another one which some of us find odd; a coworker and I were traveling behind a Ford Taurus a few years ago and noticed they had two goats riding in the back seat.

 

[Stimw]

The goats probably weren't going far. ???
Neighbor sold 2 goats to a couple "No speak english" and they hauled them away in a Toyota trunk!

 

[WoodChuckDad]

Sorry Mate, I'm sure that the coral snake has a nasty venom but it isn't even in the top 11 most venomous snakes in the world.

Perhaps you are referring to Nth America.

We've got Tiger, Copperhead and White-Lipped venomous snakes here in Tassie, and I'm cautious around the Red-Bellied Black. The Mainland has the Eastern Brown (#2) and Coastal Taipan (#3)... 21 of the world's 25 most venomous snakes call Australia home.

I don’t know why or how, but from the moment I began reading your post I hear Nick Dundee in my head.