Brian SmallWhere's Mamushi?
During the busy weekend I drove Maron and the fishing pole down to try getting Invasive Fish for the birds. While stepping into the weeds to pee I notice a perfectly still snake coiled up. It looked dead, enough to make one curious enough to touch and check. But the Mamushi snakes are poisonous so "caution is the better part of valor": any other proverb that helps you avoid doing stupid things can help.. There weren't any decent sticks around, the river sides get burnt down once a year. So I just yanked out the weed with the roots that the snake was coiled on. While doing that I lost track of the little cutie and was worried it had fled or I wouldn't be able to find it to verify anything. But it was just perfectly still in a different configuration but closer.. Now I'll never confuse a AoDaiSho Japanese rat snake: It's not just the color and body shape. They react and move very differently. The rat snake flees quck and sinuous, might do half-heard snapping. The Mamushi is still then seems serious bout darting forward to snap, the body flattens on the ground and almost seems like to become a long triangular shape. And I guess the head and jaw is bigger as expected for poisonous snakes?
Reading up on it now: would have been a big pain to get bitten. I was wondering if it could be ignored like bee stings or something but.. a week!?! would really mess up the schedule, probably hurt a lot too.. It was luck I guess that Maron was interested in something else during the verification...
> Every year, 2000–3000 people in Japan are bitten by a mamushi. Bitten victims typically require one week of treatment in a hospital. Severe bites require intensive care, and approximately 10 victims die annually.... This species is similar to the cottonmouths and copperheads (Agkistrodon sp.) of the Americas, and it was long considered part of the same group..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamushi
#JapaneseSnake #Mamushi #MamushiSnake #OkimizuRiver
#ニホンマムシ #マムシ
During the busy weekend I drove Maron and the fishing pole down to try getting Invasive Fish for the birds. While stepping into the weeds to pee I notice a perfectly still snake coiled up. It looked dead, enough to make one curious enough to touch and check. But the Mamushi snakes are poisonous so "caution is the better part of valor": any other proverb that helps you avoid doing stupid things can help.. There weren't any decent sticks around, the river sides get burnt down once a year. So I just yanked out the weed with the roots that the snake was coiled on. While doing that I lost track of the little cutie and was worried it had fled or I wouldn't be able to find it to verify anything. But it was just perfectly still in a different configuration but closer.. Now I'll never confuse a AoDaiSho Japanese rat snake: It's not just the color and body shape. They react and move very differently. The rat snake flees quck and sinuous, might do half-heard snapping. The Mamushi is still then seems serious bout darting forward to snap, the body flattens on the ground and almost seems like to become a long triangular shape. And I guess the head and jaw is bigger as expected for poisonous snakes?
Reading up on it now: would have been a big pain to get bitten. I was wondering if it could be ignored like bee stings or something but.. a week!?! would really mess up the schedule, probably hurt a lot too.. It was luck I guess that Maron was interested in something else during the verification...
> Every year, 2000–3000 people in Japan are bitten by a mamushi. Bitten victims typically require one week of treatment in a hospital. Severe bites require intensive care, and approximately 10 victims die annually.... This species is similar to the cottonmouths and copperheads (Agkistrodon sp.) of the Americas, and it was long considered part of the same group..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamushi
#JapaneseSnake #Mamushi #MamushiSnake #OkimizuRiver
#ニホンマムシ #マムシ
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