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Recent Examples of cottonmouth moccasin
Like the black mamba, the color of the inside of the cottonmouth moccasin’s mouth inspires its name, not its scales.
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Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2022
Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cottonmouth moccasin
- water moccasin
- garter snake
- diamondback rattlesnake
- coral snake
- water snake
- milk snake
- pine snake
- gopher snake
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In the Southeast, there are several venomous snakes that could potentially cause an injury to a human or pet: three species of rattlesnakes (eastern diamondback, timber, and pygmy), copperhead, cotton mouth (also known as water moccasins), and coral snake, says Maerz.Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 1 Aug. 2024
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Specifically that means pit vipers, which includes timber rattlesnakes (found in Connecticut) and copperheads and water moccasins.Staff report, Hartford Courant, 7 Feb. 2024
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However, eastern garter snakes and eastern rat snakes are both native to Virginia.Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 13 Aug. 2024
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Apart from garter snakes, which are known to cluster together in their hundreds in what’s called a hibernaculum during the winter months, most snakes are solo actors.New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 July 2024
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Western diamondback rattlesnake One of the most dangerous animals you can get bitten by in Arizona is the Western diamondback rattlesnake.Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 25 Sep. 2024
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Newsweek has previously mapped the habitat of the eastern diamondback rattlesnake, as well as the black widow and brown recluse spiders.David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
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This family of about 400 species includes coral snakes, cobras, and mambas and is considered medically important since their bites can destroy tissue, cause the heart to collapse, induce blindness, and more.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 19 Sep. 2024
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In the Southeast, there are several venomous snakes that could potentially cause an injury to a human or pet: three species of rattlesnakes (eastern diamondback, timber, and pygmy), copperhead, cotton mouth (also known as water moccasins), and coral snake, says Maerz.Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 1 Aug. 2024
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For one thing, rattlesnakes have different fat profiles than Chinese water snakes.Jordan Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
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My friend the artist and naturalist George Sanford McGee, who came with us, spotted a gorgeous brown water snake napping on one knee.John Jeremiah Sullivan, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2024
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According to the Weixin post, snakes native to North America like the Texas rat snake and the milk snake were discovered in the smuggler's trousers.Jasmine Baehr, Fox News, 12 July 2024
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The Guatemalan milk snake had much smaller hemiclitores, measuring 0.1 inches long and 0.06 inches wide, per the Times.Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
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The Fort Worth Zoo is one of four places across North America that houses the Louisiana pine snake species.Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 19 May 2024
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The Fort Worth Zoo has released a total of 229 Louisiana pine snakes into the wild in recent years, per the facility.Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 19 May 2024
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Cadden added that after speaking to a Game and Fish expert on reptiles, the slithery creature appeared to be a gopher snake, one of the most common nonvenomous snakes in Arizona.Rey Covarrubias Jr., The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2024
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Its tail is also wide and blunt, compared to the gopher snake’s thinner, more pointed one.Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 June 2022
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“Cottonmouth moccasin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cottonmouth%20moccasin. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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