SNAKES of the Southwest
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Milk Snakes are non venomous but they can pack a mean bite and draw blood! As first hand witnessed as a boy. These snakes can reach between 3-6 ft. long.
Interesting thing was this snake coiled up on me when in the grass and vibrated his tail just like a rattle snake! He struck at the stick I put near him!
Wonderful encounter with what i think is a snail-eating snake, please correct me if I’m wrong. It blends in so well…Tortuguero NP, Costa Rica
Snaking through the multiple curves east of Summit, Montana, a Burlington Northern Santa Fe grain train traverses Marias Pass on September 9, 1999. Up front is an eclectic group of motive power led by BNSF warbonnet GE C44-9W No. 781. Trailing the 781 is a former Santa Fe LRCX C30-7, a Burlington Northern C30-7, a Santa Fe EMD SD45-2B, and finally, another Dash 9 in Heritage II paint.
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Snake wine is an alcoholic beverage produced by infusing whole snakes in rice wine or grain alcohol. The drink was first recorded to have been consumed in China during the Western Zhou dynasty and considered an important curative and believed to reinvigorate a person according to Traditional Chinese medicine. It can be found in China, Goa (India), Vietnam, and throughout Southeast Asia.
The snakes, preferably venomous ones, are not usually preserved for their meat but to have their "essence" and snake venom dissolved in the liquor. The snake venom poses no threat to the drinker. It is denatured by the ethanol—its proteins are unfolded and therefore inactive and would be denatured by stomach acid anyway. [Wikipedia]
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I don't want to overdo things with the snakes but we really only see them like this once a year when they leave their dens and mate before spending the summer in their home ranges. They can be seen returning to their dens in the Autumn but not in this posture...Western wandering garter snakes (Thamnophis elegans vagrans). Photo by Frank
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This is the Snake River Canyon captured in Twin Falls Idaho.
Not far from this area is where the famous Evil Knievel attempted to jump over this canyon in his rocket back in 1974.
This corn snake from the northwest Georgia piedmont remains the most attractive individual ive ever seen.
I know that I have uploaded two close-up shots of my local Grass Snake sighting, but this one of it swimming towards me shows the whole animal. This was taken at Scout Dike reservoir near Penistone recently. It wasn't huge but my guess was that it was still about a metre in length, which is about half the length they can grow to. As soon as I saw it I knew exactly what it was as only a snake makes those sinuous movements as it "snakes" through the water. The water surface was mirror smooth but you can see he has created quite a few ripples of his own. I have only seen one Grass Snake swimming before and that was at Potteric Carr near Doncaster last year while I was watching the nesting Black-winged Stilts. But that sighting was brief and too far away to photograph.
I should mention that British Grass Snakes have now been classified as Barred Grass Snakes (Natrix helvetica). It has been taxonomically split from the Eastern Grass Snake (Natrix natrix) which was previously thought to inhabit Britain. The Eastern Grass Snake retained the scientific name (Natrix natrix) because Linnaeus first named it from Sweden, where the Eastern species occurs. Barred Grass Snake (N. helvetica) occurs from the Rhine westwards to the Pyrenees including Britain. Eastern Grass Snake (N. natrix) occurs west of the Rhine and in Scandinavia. Interestingly a small number of Grass Snakes from southern and southeastern Europe have been found in Britain but these were discounted as certain escapes from the pet trade. These were of the subspecies Natrix natrix persa which has not quite separated as a full species from the Eastern Grass Snake. The nominate subspecies of Eastern Grass Snake (Natrix natrix natrix) has not been recorded in Britain, not even as an escaped pet. The scientific name helvetica was the name we used to use for our British subspecies of Grass Snake, which also occurs in parts of Europe. Its distinguishing features were a barred body and a less prominent yellow collar (compared with Eastern European/Scandinavian Grass Snakes). The name helvetica is the Latin name for Switzerland, where Barred Grass Snake also occurs.