Western diamondback rattlesnakes are typically smaller than easterns.

Give me a break. The striped raccoon tail is a dead giveaway. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten,

"Hosey said he got within 10 to 15 feet of the rattlesnake before it started rattling repeatedly, signaling "it was time to go home. It doesn’t look like it.My guess as to the real size of the rattlesnake is about four-feet (1.2 m) long and roughly 4.5 pounds (2 kilograms).Thanks to an alert reader for forwarding the following picture (on right).

But, there’s another reason we can confidently claim the story is a hoax. Unscrupulous individuals can easily kill off many of these snakes in one outing, eliminating local populations with little effort.

Conclusion: This picture is like so many others of supposedly giant rattlesnakes. If a hypothetical cottonmouth were to reach eight feet long it wouldn’t be unreasonable to suggest that it weighed thirty pounds. It had 10 rattles. But, this snake is well below the maximum known length for the species, which seldom get larger than five feet.

The snakes sometimes are known as "banded rattlesnakes." The text associated with this picture suggests this snake is an eight foot long and thirty pound “moccasin” killed on the road to a fish hatchery in Cordele, Georgia. One e-mail states:Rattle snake killed in Statesboro.

15 ft. Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake caught yesterday at the St. Augustine Outlet biggest ever caught on record.. What a monster! In total, 37 snake species call North Carolina home. I can’t decide which is more audacious, the claim that this is an 11 foot rattlesnake (we already know they don’t get nearly that large) or that this is a rattlesnake at all! We have to be open to the possibility the rattle was cut off before the picture was taken, it is common after all, to take them as souvenirs. A huge rattler but within the known range for this species.

This must be a mounted (i.e. This is not the kind of snake you want to challenge.

Holding the snake close to the picture makes it look larger (tricks described below). Although at least one specimen over seven feet has been reported, this species typically maxes out at about five feet.

Two specimens observed by seemingly reliable sources were reported to be over eight feet long but this length is considered questionable because the snakes weren’t preserved.

The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources recommends contacting them to handle venomous snakes rather than removing (or blasting it away with a shotgun) yourself.A reader in Louisiana provided me with the picture on the right, which was accompanied by the following text:“If I saw one like this I would still be running! If by moccasin, they mean cottonmouth, then they’re correct.

Of the many cottonmouths I’ve encountered, all have either depended on their camouflage to avoid a conflict or made me aware of their presence by flashing their namesake white mouth or by thrashing the vegetation as they tried to get away from me as quickly as possible. A FOX 46 Charlotte viewer sent photos of the snake after they found it near a relative’s home on Lake Norman.

The size is exaggerated by the snake being closer to the camera than the man holding it (as well as by sensationalistic text). Both Poteau Mountain (located within Ouachita National Forest) and Olla, Louisiana are within the natural range of this species (although Olla is borderline). If so, it could possibly be one of the largest ever found in the state.Wildlife experts said most snakes of the species average nine to 10 feet at most. One article also quoted him as saying that rattlesnakes travel in pairs, so it’s likely there is another snake in the area.

The locations tend to change each time I receive them (recently, the most common iteration stated the giant snake was from Enterprise, Alabama). Some skepticism is warranted, especially since other reports indicate that the snake was five feet long (a generous estimate considering how big the snake looks in all other pictures). In that sense the weight isn’t as ridiculous as many figures given for dead rattlesnakes (below), but the take-home message is that cottonmouths don’t get that big anyway.There really is a fish hatchery in Cordele, Georgia and it is likely that cottonmouths, which eat fish, can fatten up in these areas; however, the stated size of this snake is larger than any cottonmouth that ever existed. If it’s real, it’s one of the largest western diamondbacks known to science.. You can identify this snake by the dark chevrons on its back.

"Under other circumstances or if outwardly challenged, an eastern diamondback may rattle and blow loudly, and subsequently bite if approached to within striking range," the Mississippi Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks Hosey filmed his hair-raising encounter with the rattlesnake, "Huge so fat wonder what it ate!"

All market data delayed 20 minutes. But over the weekend, they received a lesson on what else is sharing their space. Has not been officialy measured by the DNRbut if the measurements are correct it will be the new record for rattle snake!…That son of a gun is huge!!

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