A few hots i saw today

Well i went to Wildlife prarie park in Peoria Illinois(my hometown) and these are a few snakes that are native to Illinois.First we have the timber rattler. http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...12-2009001.jpg

Second we have the Cotton mouth. http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...12-2009002.jpg

Last is a Massasauga rattler(spelling sorry) . http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...12-2009003.jpg

Nice photos, and looks like a pleasant little exhibit - though your cottonmouth looks a lot like a copperhead on my monitor!

~Bruce

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Originally Posted by BrucenBruce

Nice photos, and looks like a pleasant little exhibit - though your cottonmouth looks a lot like a copperhead on my monitor!

~Bruce

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I think they are one in the same just called differantly :P

Same genus definetly a different species.

i thought the cotton mouth was a water moccasin?,,but great pics either way

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Originally Posted by RebelYell83

i thought the cotton mouth was a water moccasin?,,but great pics either way

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Thats correct because some people use one name but others call them the other :P.

I have heard that in Georgia they are called highland moccisan(coppenhead) and lowland moccisan(Cottonmouth), but I have never heard the copperhead called a cottonmouth. Every state is different so I cant say you are wrong, but I could see you calling it a moccisan and that would fit, but cottonmouth just doesn't sound right for a copperhead.

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Originally Posted by MKHerps

I have heard that in Georgia they are called highland moccisan(coppenhead) and lowland moccisan(Cottonmouth), but I have never heard the copperhead called a cottonmouth. Every state is different so I cant say you are wrong, but I could see you calling it a moccisan and that would fit, but cottonmouth just doesn't sound right for a copperhead.

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Think ablout how many differant names people have for bluegills.We have bream,sunnies,shellcrackers and probably a few more that i forget right now :P

Agkistrodon contortrix copperhead
Agkistrodon piscivorus cottonmouth
2 different snakes.

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Originally Posted by joepythons

Think ablout how many differant names people have for bluegills.We have bream,sunnies,shellcrackers and probably a few more that i forget right now :P

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no copperheads are definitely a completely different snake. cottonmouth and water moccasins are the ones that are the same.

Those are some pretty cool snakes.

I do believe that "Cotton Mouth" is a Copperhead. Water Moccasins and Cotton Mouths are the same exact thing.

This would be a Copperhead,
http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/biomes...heads_5968.jpg

and this would be your regular Water Moccasin/Cotton Mouth
http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/4h/Other_Res...Moccasin02.jpg

:)

:confuzd: Wow.

Later, Matt