What kind of snake is this?

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  1. Owsley

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    We’re surveying for Puerto Rican boas.
     
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  2. Owsley

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    Puerto Rican racer
     
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    Action shots of today’s feeding


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  5. Tiffin

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    saw this guy braving the elements as the world begins to thaw here.

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    Eastern Garter. Not sure how to tell subspecies.
     
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  6. wes tegg

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    Some big debate on facebook whether this is a black racer or Indigo:

     
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  7. Owsley

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    Black racer
     
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  8. wes tegg

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    That's what I thought. The odds alone of seeing an Indigo are so low.
     
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  9. Owsley

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    The Conecuh National Forest is really the only place to see one in Alabama, and even there your odds are infinitesimally small. Maybe this wasn’t taken in AL, though.
     
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  10. wes tegg

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    It's an Alabama Deer Hunters group, so I think it probably is.
     
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  11. burnttatertot

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    Are rattlesnakes learning to not rattle?
     
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  12. AIP

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    There is some speculation that it’s happening yes, or at least they don’t around humans
     
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  13. The Milkman

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    I almost stepped on one last year in a pine thicket in Coastal Alabama. It was not rattling.
     
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    It’s speculated that since the rattle is a give away to humans they have evolved (not sure right word) to stay still, found that it happens a good bit in areas where they have the round ups but I don’t think it’s proven fact

    I ran into a timber a few years back climbing rocks getting to my super secret fishing spot, he sure rattled loud.

    I backed down the rocks and that day the trout were safe.

    although now I’m pretty sure from watching chandler and Tyler I could free handle and even pet one
     
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  15. Tiffin

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    the last time I saw a rattler was out in Big Bear CA and it was laying straight out across a path and my mom stepped right over it. It did not rattle even after I noticed at took pictures. It was a little one.
     
  16. bigred77

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    Had a diamondback rattling at me recently
    I would've never known the was there if he hadn't

    I have heard several people say they are learning not to rattle, but know of no one who has actually witnessed it

    I figure it may be true that they are just becoming more accustomed to humans being nearby them and not being a threat to them, so therefore they don't rattle until they actually feel threatened
     
  17. electronic

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    Could also be that so many dipshitted humans are killing the ones who rattle that those who rattle less are increasingly surviving and passing that trait down.
     
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  18. Phil Brickma

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    Just curious Owsley how do you know so much about snakes?
     
  19. THF

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  20. Fafa fofo

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    Not that.
     
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  21. Fafa fofo

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    Released this little guy into the preserve behind my house, from right behind my house. Forgot to snap a pic while I had him.
     

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  22. sc_chant

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    Pack my shit and move. Thats their house
     
  23. Whammy Business

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    Nuke it from orbit.
     
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  24. EdmondDantes

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    getting out of dodge. the Yukon would probably be far enough north.
     
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    They already have from what I've read. It's bad out west for hikers and mountain bikers.
     
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    A few sub species of rattlesnakes have lost their "rattle" entirely.
     
  28. EdmondDantes

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    Australia is lit
     
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  29. paulski

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    Yeah, we're probably overrepresented but I'd still rather live here than the rattlesnake house. That's fucked up. :in-n-out:
     
  30. arrdub

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    wtf there aren’t supposed to be US snakes on this list. Or if one does show up it’s a coral snake and it has to gnaw you to death.

    And why is a Mojave rattlesnake living in the southeast
     
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  31. IV

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    Honestly this just continues to confirm that the Eastern United States from a biological and geological standpoint is the number 1 place to live.

    If we could just fix the people
     
  32. Gunners

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    Informative video if you care about these sort of things. I like Jay Brewer but most these people are awful, imagine believing someone found a 12-15 foot snake in a sewer.

     
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    Another crazy video I watched this week, forest cobras are fucking terrifying. "Good" stuff starts in 2nd half of the video

     
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  35. Whammy Business

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    That guy seems like he has no business owning venomous snakes.
     
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  36. Gunners

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    Is he a guy who's probably gonna get bit, absolutely. He already took a wicked alligator bite, he knows what he's doing though. It's just a kamikaze life
     
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  39. burnttatertot

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    that's a fat head
     
  40. Owsley

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  41. Henry Blake

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    In most videos like that, the snakes curl up around the snake hook, but that forest python just climbs right up to your hand. That's insane.
     
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  45. Owsley

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    Western ground snake. This is one of several naturally occurring morphs.
     
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  46. Pharm

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    Had a Pygmy rattler sunning on my lanai. Annoying bc i know they are relatively non agressive but a toddler and a dumbass dog could mess around and get bit. Shoveled him and tossed him into the preserve behind my house. Told my wife I killed him though. Cut the bushes and laid down snake repellent. Hopefully it was just because the rain forced him out the preserve to find food
     
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  47. Fafa fofo

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    I’m not doing very good on my guesses lately.
     
  48. Owsley

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    Don’t beat yourself up too much as this is a desert southeast endemic in a somewhat unusual aberrant pattern.

    If you’re on Reddit, r/whatisthissnake is a great resource to practice your ID skills
     
  49. Fafa fofo

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    I’m typically not, unless some one posts a nekkid link.
     
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