Coral Snake Study 3 by UVDan

Photography • Animals • posted on May 14, 2012

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Here the Coral Snake has reached the berm of the landscape rocks and climbs over.

Comments (9)

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mgtcs

10:02PM | Mon, 14 May 2012

Marvelous shot friend, beautiful skin!

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UVDan

11:15PM | Mon, 14 May 2012

Thanks.

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Darq01

11:16PM | Mon, 14 May 2012

I don't think I want to touch this guy. I will give him a wide path and let him go his own way. Great shot.

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dphoadley

12:09AM | Tue, 15 May 2012

Interesting!

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UVDan

2:25AM | Tue, 15 May 2012

Thanks everyone. These snakes are some of the most poisonous in the Western US. But they do not have fangs. So they do not inject you with the venom. The venom is in their saliva and if they break your skin, then it gets into your body. Last year I was bit three times in about a third of a second by a Coral Snake half this size or about two feet long. It did not break my skin, so I was good to go. When the red and yellow bands do not touch each other, it is a King Snake and they are not poisonous.

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