Re: [at-l] Calling all herpetologists...

[Sloetoe <sloetoe@yahoo.com>]

--- TeeEmAch@aol.com wrote:
> Milksnake was to be my guess, even before I saw your second post, Mara.
> Last 
> month while hiking in CT I sawa snake similar tothe one you described. My

> hiking partner thought it might be a Copperhead, but I was skeptical,
> mainly due to the shape/size of the head. 

A good point to keep in mind is the shape of a pit viper's 
> (which includes Copperheads and Rattlers) head is broad and rather
> triangular.

### OK, I won't bore you with the details, but I need to know: when do
copperheads AND milk snakes mate (as a species)? And do they mate in
groping groups or in pairs?

Sloetoe
(who once stepped around a ball of mating snakes, but noted that for
copperheads, they surely had narrow noggins)

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