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goodbye box turtle hey so it looks like
we have a corn snake
look at that beauty corn snakes have a
reputation for being calm and mellow and
that was the case with this one
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it never became upset as I set up my
cameras and I got pretty close to it
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she eventually did assume a more
defensive posture when she got tired of
my foolishness
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she crawled over my flip-flops and into
the forest
however the next corn snake was a little
bit different all right we got the
second corn snake of the day this one's
a little bit bigger a little bit more
colorful a little bit more feisty it
lashed out at me when I first walked up
on him
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well he boiled into an S shape and
continued to attack didn't like the
camera
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snakes can be very defensive after all
they're only true weapons are their
teeth but most of the time these are
vicious bluff
to try and scare an intruder away even
this young corn snake nipped at me a
couple of times and the green water
snake jumped up high as well but it was
this little snappy Copperhead that said
hey y'all hold my beer a lot of times
corn snakes are confused for copperheads
but as you can see they are quite
different notice his head and body shape
as well as the Hershey kiss pattern on
the Copperhead and as you can see it's
not very similar to a corn snake corn
snakes have a distinctive black and
white pattern on their belly reminding
some of Indian corn they are also known
as red rat snakes and are excellent
climbers when they are young they eat
mostly lizards as adults they eat mice
rats
sometimes birds and their eggs and even
squirrels
I'm not sure why this snake in
particular was so grumpy perhaps it had
a run-in with those annoying barking
dogs a little bit earlier I just don't
know but after this last on target lunge
it seems satisfied that it had won his
battle against me and it calmly turned
and crawled away
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