ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: Snakes

Re: Snakes

Samm C Bartee (bartesc@mail.auburn.edu)
Mon, 5 May 1997 12:00:37 -0500 (CDT)

> Where are you? I have not noticed that snakes have a distinctive odor, but
> I am in the dry Southwest, Southeastern Arizona just 40 miles North of the
> Mexican border. I wonder if the ability to notice an odor might be more
> pronounced in a humid clime than it is here.

I know that I can smell a moccasin about as quickly as Revel can. I don't
know if he taught me to smell that or if I just picked it up.
As a budding herpetologist, I learned to quickly differentiate different
smells. You know...2 kinds of snake catchers--quick ones and dead
ones....:-)

Revel can definately spot them a long ways off. HE could care less about
the non-poisonous ones though.

It is an interesting thought that the humidity or lack of would make the
difference in smelling them or not.

samm--in the humid s'east

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