Living With Venomous Reptiles

[reptilist]

Probably the krait. The krait's venom is more potent than the king's... Although the king carries more of it.
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[Guz]

Rep, have you ever been bitten?

[reptilist]

Not bitten by anything hot. I use tools to manipulate the snakes and never take shortcuts. I never grab them behind the neck either, because that is a good way to be bitten.... The idea is to keep one's fingers as far away from the fangs as possible. The tools of the trade are a snake hook, tongs and tubes.

This is a sidewinder safely held in a tube:

[SwiftDream]

How did you talk that sidewinder into that tube!

[reptilist]

When I put the end of the tube in front of a snake's head, their natural instinct is to think of it as a safe place... Like a rodent burrow. Once they go in more than a few inches I grab them at the end of the tube and hold them inside there. Of course the tube must be tight enough to preclude the animal turning back around.

[silent hunter]

Here is a friend that was trying to tell me that it would be better to change directions!!

[silent hunter]

Another photo of this snake. What kinda snake do we have here Rep?

[reptilist]

If that snake lives in Arizona then it's a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake.

[azatrox]

Yes, definitely C. atrox (Western Diamondback). Good lookin' critter too.

-Kris