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Old 04-26-2012, 12:15 AM
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Baby copperheads look just like the adults...triangle markings when looking from the side or like and hour-glass from the top...also the young snakes commonly have a yellow tipped tail (same as mocassins). What he killed sounds like a louisiana brown snake...harmless.... It really gets me how so many coon asses are scared of snakes when the poisonous snakes native to the area are so easy to identify.
In north Texas we don't have normal brown snakes. I've never seen a copperhead baby. I just assumed. The grass snakes we have are green. If I know what snake it is, and its harmless, I'll leave it alone. If I don't know what it is, its dead.

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