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Make: NIKON CORPORATION
Model: NIKON D80
Shutter Speed: 10/1250 second
F Number: F/5.6
Focal Length: 400 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Date Picture Taken: Nov 14, 2007, 5:15:04 PM
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Rio Grande Zoo, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Nov 4, 2007.
From Wikipedia: Adult specimens have a coppery colored head and neck. They are moderately sized snakes, with adults normally reaching 1.2 meters (4 feet), with thick, heavy bodies, although the body is more slender than most other pit vipers.
There are five clearly defined subspecies, all of which have distinctive light and dark brown or greenish banding: A. c. mokasen, A. c. contortrix and A. c. phaeogaster have bands that tend to narrow dorsally, giving them an hourglass shape, whereas A. c. laticinctus and A. c. pictigaster generally have bands of uniform width. The patterned underside of A. c. pictigaster, with its white and black banding, is especially distinctive. Intergrading occurs in areas where the geographic ranges of the subspecies overlap, and so pattern variations are commonplace.
Common names include Copperhead (snake), chunk head, death adder, highland moccasin, (dry-land) moccasin, narrow-banded copperhead, northern copperhead, pilot snake, poplar leaf, red oak, red snake, southeastern copperhead, white oak snake, American copperhead, southern copperhead, cantil cobrizo (Spanish).
Good gravy! Ack! I remember once we were traveling through the desert and accidently ran over a rattler. He had looked like a stick on the road. In fact, he was actually longer than the road was wide, and the car had broken his back. Somehow that snake, reared up with his remaining abilities--over a foot from the ground. He was scary with the hatred spitting fm his eyes as he hissed--if he could have, he would have killed all of us. Very scary, though I must say I felt sorry for that snake lying there with his broken back. He must have lived a very long time to have been the size he was.
My Dad is from the desert. He says he and his buddies used to catch rattlers, skin 'em and eat 'em.
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