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I just like 'em.
Here's some pix from the pocket camera:

False water cobra, Argentina:




Mamba, Caprivi




Boomslange, Caprivi


Puff Adder, Mozambique

You can keep your snakes!

WHY DID I OPEN THIS??!!

Bring on the straight jacket!

Steve...I like 'em too...

Ingwe

cool

I don't care for snakes but I respect them and the niche they fill. I find it great that others have an interest in snakes....kinda' like spiders.

Me not a pussseee...I love snakes!

Never seen so many Nancy girls.

Spent half my childhood catching them.

indigo from about 5 weeks back

I hope you shot the puff adder after you took the photo. Don't know if I would have been thinking about a camera at that point in the intro. Pretty sure I would have been lookin through glass with crosshairs in it.

killed 3 rattlesnakes last Friday. Too dang warm here for this time of year.

Scenes like this make me want a flame thrower.

http://www.kansasprairie.net/kansasprairieblog/?p=7888

Unlikeley to be taken near Tucson. Those look like standard prairie rattlers, and more common in Kansas. also the denning behavior is more common in colder climates like Kansas, although some denning does occur in central/northern Arizona with Western rattlesnakes (close to prairie rattlers)NOT Western Diamondbacks.

Sycamore

Funny ... that pic was reputed to be near Riverton, WY. Who knows as it is the innanet!

#3 son killed two five footers (rattlers) at the ranch on Sat. #1 son killed two more of the same length last week out there. They are surely out and about in South Texas right now. Good time for me to stay in the truck. I used up all my luck on rattlesnakes a long time ago. We do have a big indigo living under the camp house. He can stay and he can bring a friend or two as well. I had noticed a marked decrease in rat activity over the past several months, now I know why. An indigo can fill the snake niche just as well (or better) than a rattlesnake. Rattlesnakes are bad news but they don't hold a candle to a mamba or a puff adder. That boomslang ain't now half-stepper either. I've never heard of a false water cobra. Of course I've never been to Argentina.

Alan

Note:False Water Cobra aka. Super Ninja Cobra! I like the second name better. It's got to chew to give you a mild reaction to it's venom. Ninja must mean something different in Agentonian.

This might be the source of the snake den photos, down near the bottom of the page, with more photos of the same den:

http://www.friendslittlebighorn.com/rattlesnakesatlittlebighorn.htm

Bruce

have a friend that's got a rattler den under her house near Sinton. they've killed 5 since they moved in 3 months ago. she says every time the door is slammed or shut hard you can hear them rattling under the house. she wants my buddy Brett and i to go and catch them.

I don't kill snakes. I have absolutely no reason to. I photograph them, then leave them be. We have lots of velvet tails here and a number of pygmy rattlers too. They have difficulty crossing roads, because most people can't resist running over them, even if they must swerve into the left lane to do so. A while back, I photographed a pygmy rattler and showed it to my friend. He asked if I killed it and I said no. He said, If it bites some little kid, you'll feel bad. I said, "No I won't. There are too many kids in the world and not enough pygmy rattlers."

Very cool, Snakes eat spiders, makes me feel warm and tingly when i come across a prairie rattler swallowing a good sized spider!

If you find playing with snakes a wee bit thrilling.....we have a sweet, docile little wonder over here called a Taipan (inland Brown).

I guarantee you that your lot will be an awful lot more exciting when you grab it by the tail.

.....for a short time, anyway!

I walked into a rattler one night while coming out of the Applegate area in southern Oregon on a deer hunt.
To say it scared me half to death would be a wild understatement!!!
I was sliding down a cut bank in the bright moon light and was almost on top of it before I could get stopped.
I'm pretty sure that some of my moves, trying to get stopped are responsible for the Disco craze......

And, you better believe I killed it!