A few hots i saw today

[joepythons]

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.

[joepythons]

Second we have the Cotton mouth.

[joepythons]

Last is a Massasauga rattler(spelling sorry) .

[BrucenBruce]

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

~Bruce

[joepythons]

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

~Bruce

I think they are one in the same just called differantly

[MKHerps]

Same genus definetly a different species.

[RebelYell83]

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

[joepythons]

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

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

[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.

[joepythons]

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.

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