Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 1, 2016 - 02:24am PT
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Some of you may have seen this already. I did a quick search on the Taco Stand and did not see it posted, so I decided to put the link up.
I find it very interesting, though when the article states two different species of male snakes fighting has never been seen before (or at least recorded) I wonder if it happens more than we know, of course I am not a herpetologist but a mammalogist, the latter being my primary education, field work and training in zoology.
And it mentions the possible hybridization of the two species, both species are of the same genus, Agkistrodon.
I think snakes are beautiful creatures, but they scare the heck out of me, I avoid them, venomous or non-venomous. And it must be tough getting around with no limbs, but then, they have been doing it for a long long time.
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160928-a-woman-went-for-a-walk-and-saw-a-brand-new-snake-behaviour
EDIT
Ireland may be rainy and overcast a lot (like, NOW), but there are no snakes, except the human kind (politicians, bank executives, social workers, even journalists, oops I am one of those).
And Hetch Hetchy, beautiful, but rattlesnake café.
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