One of the most thrilling and interesting aspects of my visit to South Carolina were my 5 encounters with copperheads. As long as I wasn't bumbling around without looking where I was going, we got along quite well and I grew very affectionate toward these peaceable (though not to be messed with) venemous snakes.
A nice orange Southern Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix) in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, April 2016. The above nomenclature is based on the taxonomy currently recognized by SSAR (01/2017). Others (Powell, Conant, and Collings, 2016) now consider this the Eastern Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix).
One of the most thrilling and interesting aspects of my visit to South Carolina were my 5 encounters with copperheads. As long as I wasn't bumbling around without looking where I was going, we got along quite well and I grew very affectionate toward these peaceable (though not to be messed with) venemous snakes.
One of the most thrilling and interesting aspects of my visit to South Carolina were my 5 encounters with copperheads. As long as I wasn't bumbling around without looking where I was going, we got along quite well and I grew very affectionate toward these peaceable (though not to be messed with) venemous snakes.