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Post by exoticimports on Aug 18, 2014 20:24:49 GMT -8
About 12 years ago my nephew and I went to the pine hills in Union County, Southern Illinois. We found this abberant colored Crotalus Horridus (Timber Rattlesnake). It was over 4 feet long and bigger around than a soda can.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2014 1:41:13 GMT -8
I wish I could have but, the pine hills are strictly off limits to collecting. I would have feared that I may have been captured by a conservation officer for doing so. That was a once in a lifetime snake!
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Post by jackblack on Nov 13, 2014 4:01:46 GMT -8
I think the snake guard add is pretty weak , I reckon if I had a set on and tried to kick the crap out of you , you would strike back just as violently.Amazing what one can get away with overseas.
Try that here in Aust and you would be busted, interfering with wildlife .
Looks like a great product if one is blundering through the scrub unaware of what is around you.
Growing up as a kid in PNG and running around in the scrub with the native kids always barefoot , I once asked the kids , aren`t you afraid of not wearing shoes and being bitten by a snake .They said wearing shoes you can`t feel the snake under foot and get out of the way fast enough , seen a few locals jump sky high on some of our expeditions and nobody died .
I have walked pretty well barefoot my whole life in PNG and Aust scrub and still here , a lot of snakes hear you coming and get out of the way.Or if I see them first I get out of their way .
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Post by Adam Cotton on Nov 13, 2014 13:46:21 GMT -8
While driving back to the hotel with Vadim Tshikolovets from a day's collecting in eastern Laos I saw something that looked like a stick upright in the straight road several hundred metres ahead. When I got closer I could see that it was a huge King Cobra, and the 'stick' was its head and upper body. I braked to a stop when I got close and Vadim jumped out to try to get a photo, but at the same time a truck full of Lao men pulled up from the other direction and they all jumped out with sticks and chased it. Before they could get to it the cobra slithered away into a storm drain and disappeared.
That was certainly the largest wild snake I have ever seen, but I almost trod on a Russel's Viper in Tak back in 1980 (not a good idea!) and was crossing a stream on a fallen tree on Doi Suthep when I saw a green Pit Viper sitting on a bush ready to strike just next to the log. It was obviously waiting for the next mouse or other small animal to use the log as a bridge.
Apart from these I really haven't seen much in the way of poisonous snakes out here. I assume though that they have seen me!
Adam.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2014 19:27:11 GMT -8
Wow Adam! Consider yourself lucky to see one in the wild as I understand they are getting harder to find.
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