Living With Venomous Reptiles

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Probably the krait. The krait's venom is more potent than the king's... Although the king carries more of it.
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Rep, have you ever been bitten?
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Not bitten by anything hot. I use tools to manipulate the snakes and never take shortcuts. I never grab them behind the neck either, because that is a good way to be bitten.... The idea is to keep one's fingers as far away from the fangs as possible. The tools of the trade are a snake hook, tongs and tubes.

This is a sidewinder safely held in a tube:
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How did you talk that sidewinder into that tube! :o
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When I put the end of the tube in front of a snake's head, their natural instinct is to think of it as a safe place... Like a rodent burrow. Once they go in more than a few inches I grab them at the end of the tube and hold them inside there. Of course the tube must be tight enough to preclude the animal turning back around.
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Here is a friend that was trying to tell me that it would be better to change directions!! Image
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Another photo of this snake. What kinda snake do we hImageave here Rep?
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If that snake lives in Arizona then it's a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake.
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Yes, definitely C. atrox (Western Diamondback). Good lookin' critter too.

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