re: Need Snake ID. Found by Dog

How do you not know what that is? You live in LA?

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*Poisonous

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*Venomous

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**Poisonous

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*Poisonous

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***Venomous


No snake (except for 1 species in Asia) is poisonous.

Many people call a snake ‘poisonous’ when they mean ‘venomous’. The latter involves injecting prey with a toxin (venom), whereas the former is secreting a defensive toxin (poison) that an attacker would prefer not to touch.

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Need Snake ID.

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My grandpa called those "a three-stepper."

He said that's how many steps you take after you're bitten before your muscles lock up...

Rhabdophis tigrinus is an oviparous Asian snake (Colubridae: Natricinae) that possesses unusual defensive glands on the neck known as nuchal glands (Fig. 1; Nakamura, 1935; Smith, 1938; Mori et al., 2012). The contents of the nuchal glands have been shown to contain toxic bufadienolides (Akizawa et al., 1985a,b), which irritate mucous membranes and cause corneal injuries (Kawashima, 1959; Suzuki, 1960; Asahi et al., 1985). B

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How do you not know what that is? You live in LA?

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You’d be surprised at how many people see those and think they are cotton mouths

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You’d be surprised at how many people see those and think they are cotton mouths

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That mistaken identity has gotten untold numbers of water snakes killed.

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So......poisonous?

Not being facetious this time. If eating it, gland and all, causes issues that would be poisonous? I guess those glands could expel the toxic substance in some way. Interesting.

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Both poisonous and venomous. Not gonna find it in the US tho.

Supposedly, the common non-venomous garter snake can become temporarily poisonous by eating a poisonous frog...but I've never heard of anyone being poisoned by a garter snake.

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You can tell that it's a snake because of the way that it is.

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people don't think snakes be like they do, but they do

It's a snake..what else do you need to know?



That is my motto.,but I did see a 5-6 foot chicken snake this weekend and did not kill it. Well, I was on the tractor moving some hay rings and it was crawling into a hole.