Once we had heavy rain for a few days continuously, and when it was over, we found this rather large snake hiding inside our water "control panel" (a pit full of valves, which has raised sides, and is usually covered with a sheet of plastic with a large slate tile on top, so the inside stays dry).

I don't know what kind of snake it was. When it saw me, it squished itself into this tiny crevice, and I couldn't see much of it. I left the pit uncovered for a while, and when I came back, the snake was gone.

#snakes

The snake talk podcast looks interesting This episode. I’ve only seen an indigo in captivity. They are absolutely stunning snakes.

#Podcast #Snakes #Reptiles #UGA

COBRAAAAAA!

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1802721/cobraaaaaa

"No matter the circumstance, particularly in the Southern literary tradition, encounters between rattlesnakes and humans are nearly always a zero-sum game. Someone will always end up dead—sometimes a person, more often the snake." —Elsa Pearl for Oxford American

https://oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/rattlesnakes-at-my-door

#Snakes #TimberRattlesnake #Appalachia

#NewSpecies!
New bamboo pitviper from #china just sidled in:

Trimeresurus liqibini

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/889FFB7C-8135-599E-936B-3C794682625F
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.102.173390
#ZoosystematicsAndEvolution #TrimeresurusLiqibini

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #herpetology #herps #reptilia #snakes #viper #pitviper