Snake skin identification help

[jazz lady]

I was walking my dogs in the woods yesterday and came across a rather large snake skin lying across the path. How can I identify what kind of snake it came from?

Both dogs went nuts over it, sniffing it intently. One then tried to bite the skin and growled at it. Is this instinctive for dogs?

 

[crabcake]

try here :shrug:

 

[Pete]

Re: Here is a clue for you...

Originally posted by kwillia
You can use the tail scales to determine if a snake is poisonous. The pit vipers (poisonous) have a single row of scales under the tail beginning at the

vent . Near the end of the tail, the single row will change into a double row. All others have single tail scales.

Is that a scientific term for something?

 

[Otter]

Originally posted by jazz lady
How can I identify what kind of snake it came from?

Go back into the woods until you find the snake, pry open its mouth and see if there are little red spots in its throat. If there are no red spots, its probably a black snake, otherwise its poisonous.

 

[Pete]

Are you sure it is a snake skin and not a discarded troj.....nevermind.

 

[Greg]

Be glad this didn't happen.

 

[jazz lady]

Re: Re: Snake skin identification help

Originally posted by otter
Go back into the woods until you find the snake, pry open its mouth and see if there are little red spots in its throat. If there are no red spots, its probably a black snake, otherwise its poisonous.

I think this is a perfect job for an otter. Please, please, purty please?


The new smilies are UP and here's the 'otter':

 

[Otter]

Re: Re: Re: Snake skin identification help

Originally posted by jazz lady
I think this is a perfect job for an otter. Please, please, purty please?

Resisting the urge to run down the hall and scream "The new smilies are here!!, the new smilies are here!!"

 

[jazz lady]

Originally posted by Pete
Are you sure it is a snake skin and not a discarded troj.....nevermind.

If it was, I'd be hearing "Ho, ho, ho...Green Giant" around my house.

 

[jazz lady]

Originally posted by Greg
Be glad this didn't happen.

If it did, it would be the LAST time I go walking in the woods.

I just wanted to use all the new smilies:
:tool:

 

[Pete]

Originally posted by jazz lady
If it was, I'd be hearing "Ho, ho, ho...Green Giant" around my house.

Did it have a lot # of 246654 from plant #432?

 

[jazz lady]

Originally posted by Pete
Did it have a lot # of 246654 from plant #432?

I'll bring it to you so you can find out.

 

[Pete]

Originally posted by jazz lady
I'll bring it to you so you can find out.

nevermind, none of mine are unaccounted for.

 

[James White]

Jazz Lady

Jazz Lady,
Can you describe what it loked like in detail ??

 

[jazz lady]

Re: Jazz Lady

Originally posted by James White
Jazz Lady,
Can you describe what it loked like in detail ??

If it's still there, I'm going to get it and take a couple of pictures of it, then post them on here.

All I can tell you is it was about three feet long and grayish in color. I didn't really get too close to it.

 

[jazz lady]

I saw that, kwillia!!!

 

[jazz lady]

Okay, here are the pictures...

Number one is a picture of the full snakeskin, which is about 4 feet long.

 

[jazz lady]

Number two is a closeup of the skin so you can see the pattern.

 

[jazz lady]

Number three is another closeup shot of a different area of the skin.

 

[cattitude]

Dunno, Jazz. Looks like the ones we find in our yard all the time. We found one about 6 foot long a few years back. It was perfect...no tears, etc. The face was amazing. I'm sure the ones we find are from our black snakes. That's what these look like but I didn't see the head part on yours. Then again, I'm no snake expert either.