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2017-06-05 -Short Attention Span Theater-

The stuff of nightmares: Rattlesnake is spotted SWIMMING in an Arizona lake

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Posted by Anomalous Sources 2017-06-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 potential reasons include escaping a predator, looking for a mate, going to new habitat, or cooling off

And improper disposal of toxic waste. We seen this movie.

Posted by SteveS 2017-06-05 00:28|| 2017-06-05 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 They forgot gerbil worming.

Posted by gorb 2017-06-05 01:00|| 2017-06-05 01:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Seen to fang and eat bluegills.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-06-05 01:10|| 2017-06-05 01:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Nah, rattlesnakes are cool, copperheads always run away, but water moccasins... Nasty. Seen them actually chase someone...

Posted by magpie 2017-06-05 03:44|| 2017-06-05 03:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe the Rio Grand could be made a rattlesnake-friendly river. Might not need to build a wall in those sections of the border.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-06-05 08:01|| 2017-06-05 08:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Seen to fang and eat bluegills

Don't disagree but aren't bluegills a bit 'flat' and 'pokey' for that, Skidmark? I suppose the small 'silver dollar' ones might be possible for a larger snake.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2017-06-05 08:05|| 2017-06-05 08:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Not unknown for rattlers to swim.

And yes, cotton mouths are nasty and did chase me and another guy at Ft. Campbell. We would take e-tools in case they got real ornry.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-06-05 09:59|| 2017-06-05 09:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Most any snake will swim at need. You really want to be careful in the water after a tropical storm, flooding flushes everything out of the ground.
Oh, BTW, alligators climb trees. I've seen at least 6 footers on tree limbs.

Posted by ed in texas 2017-06-05 10:20|| 2017-06-05 10:20|| Front Page Top

#9 All snakes can swim.

Posted by Iblis 2017-06-05 10:47|| 2017-06-05 10:47|| Front Page Top

#10 alligators climb trees. I've seen at least 6 footers on tree limbs.

Wait -- what??

Posted by trailing wife 2017-06-05 12:05|| 2017-06-05 12:05|| Front Page Top

#11

Posted by Skidmark 2017-06-05 12:07|| 2017-06-05 12:07|| Front Page Top

#12 I am much more at home on this thread than the man-doilies, even with the tree-gators.

Snakes can swim, its just that moccasins are the jerk at the pool who goes around splashing people.

Posted by swksvolFF 2017-06-05 15:54|| 2017-06-05 15:54|| Front Page Top

#13 So the reasons they swim are the same reason people swim?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2017-06-05 16:01|| 2017-06-05 16:01|| Front Page Top

#14 The family was swimming in a creek up in the Smokies and a snake went by in the water--it wasn't so much swimming as it was being carried downstream by the current--might have been a Copperhead; I didn't get a good look. I have also seen what was probably a Black Snake climb a large pine tree in our yard after an extended hard rain. A few years ago a construction worker working just over the ridge got bitten by a Copperhead here in the city.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-06-05 16:13|| 2017-06-05 16:13|| Front Page Top

#15 #13 So the reasons they swim are the same reason people swim?

No, the snake doesn't know you're NOT supposed to pee in the pool.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2017-06-05 17:09|| 2017-06-05 17:09|| Front Page Top

#16 Once when snorkelling in Fiji, I started to follow a sea snake (almost all are extremely venomous). It then turned around and started following me.

Close to the dumbest thing I ever did, as I was alone and a few hundred yards from shore.

Posted by phil_b 2017-06-05 17:56|| 2017-06-05 17:56|| Front Page Top

#17 TW, here's an interesting item:
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2016/06/30/Fence-climbing-alligator-caught-on-camera-at-Florida-country-club/4481467310134/

Posted by ed in texas 2017-06-05 18:42|| 2017-06-05 18:42|| Front Page Top

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