Sunday, May 07, 2006

This is the second Gopher Snake I saw that day





This was the second gopher snake (genus Pituophis) sighting. Gopher snakes are not poisonous. They kill their prey by constriction and suffocation. They often try to immitate a rattlesnake by coiling up and hissing and vibrating the tail. This guy was a small one, maybe a foot long.

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