girl I know spotted this cul de sac beast said she drove up and rolled down her window and screamed at it kind of frightening though cause a lot of kids in the area; she didn't like it when I told her they were probably pretty common around there
Been seeing rattlesnakes in the 5,000-6,500 feet elevation range since the ground temperatures went up. Gotta make sure my dog doesn't go off trail but I'm still more worried about him stepping on cacti than getting snakebit A Fort Collins couple had their wedding pictures interrupted by the groom getting bitten by a rattlesnake the other day http://denver.cbslocal.com/2016/06/21/rattlesnake-bite-horseshoe-reservoir-colorado/
Reminds me of this girl in high school. Some local wildlife expert brought several trapped animals into our marine biology class. One was a massive possum that was hissing and snarling at us from its cage. Girl goes up to the cage and tries to stick her fingers inside like "can I touch it? hehe". The guy pulled her away before the magic happened though. cool story bro
Sadie 1 python 0 Pelican what kind? It must have been a pet that got loose since I am in pa Was about 4 foot long, dog was all proud of herself
Good question. Owsley probably knows. The only constrictors I really know anything about are Reticulated Pythons, Rock Pythons Anacondas, and of course our friend the Olive Python.
Let's hop back in our time machine and go back to April 30th so he can answer it for us. Because that is when a girl took him from us, like a thief in the night. Girls are so gay.
Not Owsley, but looks like it could be a milk snake to me. The head is a decent indicator if that is still laying around.
Pretty proud of myself the other day. I'm a great big bitch when it comes to snakes and usually stay in the kill it with fire camp. Neighbor comes over the other day and says "Wellen Dowd, do you think you could help me?" Sure enough theres about a 3 footer coiled up in the rim of a flower planter filled with water. No idea what kind of snake it was but I attached one of those garage utility hooks to a paint roller extension pole and turned my self into a mothafuckin snake wrangler. Successfully transplanted his ass to the field nearby and he took off in the opposite direction. Pretty sure he poked his head up out of the grass and said "thanks dawg" No pics b/c i didn't know this thread existed. Will do better in the future
haha I love the visual in my head of this snake being like "shit what the fuck where you taking me son? Oh shit wait, this field nice b. Thanks dawg"
It was a large adult female Ball Python. The color, body, and scale patterns are nearly identical to mine. Males typically max out at 3 feet. Large females can reach 5.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...gs-anaconda/qf9d3p1L6SZFNt3qS7tI2L/story.html That snake skin in Maine? It’s from an anaconda The results are in — and they’re potentially terrifying. Authorities confirmed Tuesday that a snake skin found along the Presumpscot River in Westbrook, Maine, earlier this month came from an anaconda. to perpetuate stories of “Wessie,” as the quasi-mythical creature has come to be known. View Story Photos: Finding ‘Wessie’ The mystery of Wessie has attracted all sorts of people. ‘Wessie’ is Maine city’s Loch Ness monster Lally said he doesn’t know what to believe, at this point. “It could be a hoax, I don’t know. It’s certainly interesting,” he said in a telephone interview. “But I don’t know where you find a 10- or 12-foot anaconda skin.” Anacondas are native to South America. The largest kind, green anacondas, have been reliably measured at more than 30 feet long, though most do not get more than 16 feet long. They can kill animals by throwing their coils around them or by using their mouth and sharp teeth. They often drag their kills back into the water, according to britannica.com. Lally said various witness statements about snake sightings, including reports from two officers in his department and a public services employee for the city, seem consistent with the behavior of an anaconda. “But again, I don’t know,” he said. “It’s a big mystery.” Police will continue to work with specialists to strategize ways to locate and capture — or possibly euthanize — the snake, whether or not it’s an anaconda, according to a statement from the department. The DNA testing and identification was done by John Placyk Jr., an associate professor in the department of biology at the University of Texas at Tyler. Placyk said he reached out to Lally in Maine after he learned through a friend and on social media that the snake skin had been found by the river. Lally agreed to snip a piece of the skin off and send it to Texas. Placyk said he extracted DNA from the skin and then amplified a mitochondrial gene before comparing it to a national genetic resources database. When he got a match, his jaw dropped, he said. “It was pretty unexpected, I’ll tell you that,” he said. “This was a 100 percent match to an anaconda.” Placyk said the question still remains if the skin was put there “to mess with people” as interest in Wessie has grown. “The odd thing is that the skin was so well intact, and a lot of times anacondas shed in smaller pieces and it rubs off on branches,” he said. Still, “It is possible there’s one there,” he said. “The skin looked pretty fresh to me.” He cautioned the public in the area to be vigilant, and to not let small pets run loose near the river in the meantime. Derek Yorks, a wildlife biologist for the state’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife said it’s illegal to own an anaconda in Maine. He said it’s “completely possible” that someone could have kept one as a pet, however, and then released it into the wild when it grew too large. “If it’s indeed an anaconda, probably someone didn’t want it anymore and let it go, because it was big and required large food prey items,” he said. “You’d have to be buying this thing rabbits or chickens.” Yorks said it’s also “totally possible” that someone in another state, or even in Maine, who has an anaconda illegally, could have brought the skin to Westbrook and placed it out in the woods. If the snake is real, experts say, it won’t be around for long. “If there is indeed still a large non-native snake at large in Westbrook, it almost certainly is a tropical or subtropical species that will not survive the winter,” Yorks said.
Custodian at my wife's school killed a diamondback today. I don't like it, but I understand it with the children. I still think it's shitty. Basically shows the kids they should kill snakes. /rustledsnakeperson