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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 4122357" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>Your neighbor doesn't go outside, isn't observant, or has just been really, really lucky. If you're in central or eastern Oklahoma, there are copperheads (and, most likely, some rattler variant) somewhere around you. Back when I was in high school, my biology teacher told us that 76 out of 77 counties in Oklahoma had confirmed cottonmouth sightings, and the one county that hadn't was Cleveland county, so it was highly probable that all 77 counties actually had them.</p><p></p><p>For the most part, I do the whole "live and let live" thing with snakes, but not with copperheads or anything that looks like it might identify as a copperhead. Those SOBs are aggressive towards humans, so they get dispatched with extreme prejudice.</p><p></p><p>As for cottonmouths not being venomous, your friend must be mistaking them with another variety of snake. Cottonmouths are pit vipers, just like rattlesnakes (they're in the same family, <em>viperidae</em>), and are definitely venomous.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 4122357, member: 26737"] Your neighbor doesn't go outside, isn't observant, or has just been really, really lucky. If you're in central or eastern Oklahoma, there are copperheads (and, most likely, some rattler variant) somewhere around you. Back when I was in high school, my biology teacher told us that 76 out of 77 counties in Oklahoma had confirmed cottonmouth sightings, and the one county that hadn't was Cleveland county, so it was highly probable that all 77 counties actually had them. For the most part, I do the whole "live and let live" thing with snakes, but not with copperheads or anything that looks like it might identify as a copperhead. Those SOBs are aggressive towards humans, so they get dispatched with extreme prejudice. As for cottonmouths not being venomous, your friend must be mistaking them with another variety of snake. Cottonmouths are pit vipers, just like rattlesnakes (they're in the same family, [I]viperidae[/I]), and are definitely venomous. [/QUOTE]
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