Black snake imitating a rattler
 

I was watching a 3 foot black snake making its way across my driveway yesterday when my neighbor came by (yes THAT neighbor, if you read the painting thread). He grabbed a little stick and poked at it and it scurried off into some dry leaves and started shaking its tail, rattling the leaves. My neighbor of course concluded that it must be a rattlesnake. :rolleyes:
Wish I had a picture, but I didn’t have my phone with me. (Remember when that would have been a non-sequitur)?

Az gopher snakes resemble Rattlers and mimic the rattle by doing that...shaking a bush...they are good snakes that kill rats etc....but many do not know the dif and kill them. I pick them up and relocate them to my property.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1566147605.jpg

As opposed to the real deal. Pic taken last week in the garage of a friend who lives in Houston.

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It was probably an eastern hognose snake. They will also flatten out their neck like a cobra and will roll over and play dead.

We get rattlers pretty regularly....we must have a green Mohave lair nearby too as I whack them on occasion.

It was a black rat snake and it didn’t play dead.
A bunch of kids found a 7 foot crocodile in our creek about a mile from here. Some idiot dumped it in the swimming hole. I hope they find him and charge him something more meaningful than cruelty to reptiles.

Tips fer snakes....do NOT imitate somethin' I would kill....just don't. I don't kill leaves though :)

Being from az I don't mess with the wildlife... good way to win a stupid prize. I usually saw more wildlife in tucson then phoenix. Gila monsters, rattlers, javelina. Phoenix I'll see rattlers out in cave creek, and smaller things in town. When it's more towards winter they'll go crawling on the roads for heat, and make easy pickings to catch or runover. As a kid I would catch kingsnakes, and gopher... rattlers I just left alone.

I would imitate running a race, like a 200 meter sprint.

I'm sorry but I couldn't spare even one scorpion.

BINGO! Me too...no matter what kind it is.

I have known THREE people here in OC that got bit by a rattler, all three had no reason to pick it up, one a baby he caught when we were fishing and brought it home. Dumsht.
We used to kill them but finally I just let them alone, most don't want to strike. The Blacks and Green Mojave seem to have bad attitudes though. The Reds just want to be left alone. Babies just strike anything.

Thought that story was a bourbon hallucination until the video rolled. Holy sweet tap dancing monkey farts.

Yeah, it really happened. No reports on how the croc got there, but they say it was a salt water creature and would not have lived long in fresh water.

I‘ve seen them (black snakes) rattle also. Surprisingly they can act pretty aggressively sometimes...

Wow, that's terrible. I hear the green mojaves are pretty mean suckers.

ha! story time. High school football pratice one morning when we swtiched from track shoes to cleats. One kid had a scorpion in his cleat. Got him with the stinger, and he goes down. thought heat cat. Nope scorpion. Trauma 1 hospital was a few hundred yards from my HS. Back at practice the following week.


Used to find them all the time around my parent's place, and at the rivers. If they're being an arse hole i'll step on them, but if they're trying to get away. I'll let them go outside, or at least in the neighbors yard. :rolleyes:

Where’s vash?

Still running? He is in pretty good shape!

They have both toxins...many survive rattlesnake bites with no issue.... with the right care....GM's are killers.

The Mojave rattlesnake is the most dangerous of rattlesnakes in the Mojave Desert. Its venom, which it uses to immobilize its prey and defend itself, attack both the nervous system with neurotoxins and the bloodstream with hemotoxins.