snakes in wisconsin
10-06-2008, 08:35 PM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Elk Mound, Wi
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snakes in wisconsin
I went hunting tonight with my brother and he almost stepped on a snake. we were trying to figure out what kind it was. It was a little over 24 inches and was about as big around as a golf ball. When he was disterbed he flattened his head out like a cobra wouldand would hiss at us. My bro about screamed when he almost stepped on it, so I took the privlige of finding this snake and chased him across a small grass field with it.
Well anyways was just wondering if any one might know what kind it was. thanks..
Well anyways was just wondering if any one might know what kind it was. thanks..
10-07-2008, 07:18 AM
#3
Nontypical Buck
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RE: snakes in wisconsin
Sounds like a hog-nosed snake. They have a color pattern similar to a rattler and will flatten their head and hiss, if further provoked they will turn belly up and ooze out some slime that stinks like rotting flesh. Non-poisonous. I remember finding a few of them in wood piles and stuff as a kid.
10-07-2008, 07:27 AM
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Fork Horn
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RE: snakes in wisconsin
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Sounds like a hog-nosed snake. They have a color pattern similar to a rattler and will flatten their head and hiss, if further provoked they will turn belly up and ooze out some slime that stinks like rotting flesh. Non-poisonous. I remember finding a few of them in wood piles and stuff as a kid.
Sounds like a hog-nosed snake. They have a color pattern similar to a rattler and will flatten their head and hiss, if further provoked they will turn belly up and ooze out some slime that stinks like rotting flesh. Non-poisonous. I remember finding a few of them in wood piles and stuff as a kid.
10-07-2008, 10:26 AM
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Typical Buck
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RE: snakes in wisconsin
its a hognose snake,
http://www.garden-city.org/zoo/animalinfo/ReptAmph/hognose_snake.htm
this website gives pics and description. Used to have a couple at the zoo i worked at, harmless snakes.
http://www.garden-city.org/zoo/animalinfo/ReptAmph/hognose_snake.htm
this website gives pics and description. Used to have a couple at the zoo i worked at, harmless snakes.
10-07-2008, 11:54 AM
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Location: Elk Mound, Wi
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RE: snakes in wisconsin
It must be the hognose. Only itwas a darker brown and it didn't play dead just coiled up and hissed then tried to get away slowley but we caught it agian. I didn't know if it was poisoness so we used a stick to pick it up.
