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10/20/2014 11:04:37 PM · #1 |
This snake was in the woods in Missouri today. I tried an online snake ID site to no avail.
What is it, DPC snake experts!
Thanks in advance! |
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10/20/2014 11:12:32 PM · #2 |
| Looks more like an Eastern Gartersnake than any other snake I can find indigenous to Missouri. Note that ALL poisonous snakes in Missouri have vertical-slit pupils, so this is not one of them... |
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10/20/2014 11:15:36 PM · #3 |
| not even sure what that is Neil. Where at in Missouri were you? |
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10/20/2014 11:16:48 PM · #4 |
| This is in La Plata Missouri |
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10/20/2014 11:19:20 PM · #5 |
| this actually may be a water snake |
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10/20/2014 11:22:32 PM · #6 |
| That's an Eastern Hognose |
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10/20/2014 11:41:05 PM · #7 |
| Neil, I'm no expert (and scared to death of snakes), but I think this may be what we called a "hog-nosed" snake when I was a kid growing up in Missouri. They sometimes mimic a cobra by spreading the skin behind their head, and they have a kind of up-turned nose. They may also be a type of garter snake, but the behaviors are sort of interesting. I agree with Bear that it does not look like a copperhead. (It would still scare me to see it "in person"). |
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10/21/2014 12:19:15 AM · #8 |
Hognose looks right to me. Thanks.
He was not at all aggressive. Just sunning himself on the path (and basically hogging the path!) We stopped to take the photos and he eventually decided we were not a threat and not all that interesting, and scurried off.
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10/21/2014 07:28:25 AM · #9 |
Yeah thats a hognose it's one of the few if only snake on this side of the world that will flatten it's head like a cobra if ya piss it off.
Great find Neil. |
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