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On 9/19/2024 at 2:30 PM, gsoda3 said:

Imagine you're in the kitchen looking for something to kill a snake.  You go with crowbar?

In the kitchen, I just MIGHT look for a knife...but what do I know?

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name="Gatorubet" userid="[emoji[emoji[emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6]]]][emoji[emoji[emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6]]]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]]]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji[emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6]]]][emoji[emoji[emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6]]]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]]]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji[emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6]]]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]][emoji[emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6][emoji6]]]]]][emoji[emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6]]][emoji[emoji[emoji6]][emoji[emoji6]]]"] Gorgeous.  Milk snake?

No idea. I’m asking.
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On 9/23/2024 at 10:21 PM, Handcruser said:

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On 9/23/2024 at 10:30 PM, Gatorubet said:

Gorgeous.  Milk snake?

 

On 9/24/2024 at 7:55 AM, gsoda3 said:

gray ratsnake

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Eastern milksnake.  You ain’t eastern duh

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10 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

Comments are saying Black Racer. I cant confirm, but the racers in my area are definitely climbers and biters. 

 

 

I'm going to guess its a black rat snake.

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also Florida...  77lb Whitetail

Python attempts to swallow 77-pound deer. Photo: Ian Bartoszek

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida on Thursday shared images and video showing a Burmese python attempting to “ingest” a 77-pound white-tailed deer.

The adult female python, photographed in South Florida by conservancy biologist Ian Bartoszek, measured 14 feet, 8 inches.

Bartoszek stated: “Watching an invasive apex predator swallow a full-sized deer in front of you is something that you will never forget.

"The impact the Burmese python is having on native wildlife cannot be denied. This is a wildlife issue of our time for the Greater Everglades ecosystem.”

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On 10/25/2024 at 11:13 AM, locodos said:

also Florida...  77lb Whitetail

Python attempts to swallow 77-pound deer. Photo: Ian Bartoszek

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida on Thursday shared images and video showing a Burmese python attempting to “ingest” a 77-pound white-tailed deer.

The adult female python, photographed in South Florida by conservancy biologist Ian Bartoszek, measured 14 feet, 8 inches.

Bartoszek stated: “Watching an invasive apex predator swallow a full-sized deer in front of you is something that you will never forget.

"The impact the Burmese python is having on native wildlife cannot be denied. This is a wildlife issue of our time for the Greater Everglades ecosystem.”

How does it take the girth?

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On 10/31/2024 at 9:35 AM, Carl Spackler said:

Sorry to sound callous, but I wonder what species was the perp.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/dingo-dinkelman-youtuber-known-south-000000703.html

Dingo Dinkelman, YouTuber Known As South Africa’s Steve Irwin, Dies After Snake Bite . . .

Caught some of his videos a couple of years back. He was so absurdly cavalier that I felt compelled to leave a comment that his practices would be inevitably fatal.

Doesn't feel particularly gratifying to be correct in this context.

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On 12/5/2024 at 3:51 PM, Jerry Callo said:

Cottonmouth - hope you didn't try to pet it.

Don't cottonmouths start out rather bright and mature into that sort of murdered out color?

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8 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Don't cottonmouths start out rather bright and mature into that sort of murdered out color?

Younger ones are brighter, but even some older ones are light colored with distinct patterns.  Young cottonmouths and copperheads also have yellow/chartreuse caudal lure tails. 

Young cottonmouths and copperheads are often misidentified because their colors are similar.

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2 hours ago, Jerry Callo said:

Younger ones are brighter, but even some older ones are light colored with distinct patterns.  Young cottonmouths and copperheads also have yellow/chartreuse caudal lure tails. 

Young cottonmouths and copperheads are often misidentified because their colors are similar.

are you a herpesologist?

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On 2/10/2025 at 1:55 PM, futureman said:

I used to yell at stupid Yankees, who let their grandkids run around near the edge of the 5 trillion ponds in Florida.  Why more alligators don’t eat grandkid appetizers is beyond me.  Their entire evolutionary background is to lay in muddy pond water next to the shore and then launch themselves out of the waterwith their tail to grab their prey and drag it in the water.  They don’t care if Ashley and Jacob are visiting grandma.

It’s not gonna be long before they find one of those big damn pythons with a large bump in its middle the same week some missing kid winds up on a milk carton

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On 2/11/2025 at 8:00 PM, Gatorubet said:

I used to yell at stupid Yankees, who let their grandkids run around near the edge of the 5 trillion ponds in Florida.  Why more alligators don’t eat grandkid appetizers is beyond me.  Their entire evolutionary background is to lay in muddy pond water next to the shore and then launch themselves out of the waterwith their tail to grab their prey and drag it in the water.  They don’t care if Ashley and Jacob are visiting grandma.

It’s not gonna be long before they find one of those big damn pythons with a large bump in its middle the same week some missing kid winds up on a milk carton

I remember when that happened to that young child at a resort in Florida. Seems like the hotel had signs about FAFO and alligator warnings, parents didn’t heed the warning.

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On 2/11/2025 at 8:00 PM, Gatorubet said:

I used to yell at stupid Yankees, who let their grandkids run around near the edge of the 5 trillion ponds in Florida.  Why more alligators don’t eat grandkid appetizers is beyond me.  Their entire evolutionary background is to lay in muddy pond water next to the shore and then launch themselves out of the waterwith their tail to grab their prey and drag it in the water.  They don’t care if Ashley and Jacob are visiting grandma.

It’s not gonna be long before they find one of those big damn pythons with a large bump in its middle the same week some missing kid winds up on a milk carton


 

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