• topherclay@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    This is like that “red touches yellow rhyme” that is completely useless if you aren’t living in whatever specific region the rule originated from.

      • synae[he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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        8 months ago

        But do you have king snakes too, that you need to differentiate from the coral snakes?

        Seems like only the regions with both types need the rhyme (maybe they overlap completely, I’m no snake expert)

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      8 months ago

      No, but somewhat useful when a red black and yellow snake shows up in the playground and you need to know if you should tell the teacher and cancel recess or not.

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    8 months ago

    You can also check if it’s venemous by checking how long its fangs are. Constrictors have a lot of small short teeth for holding onto prey. Venemous snakes have at least 2 large fangs for injecting venom. Therefor if a snake has big teeth then it’s either venomous or a very large constrictor. So next time you’re wondering if a snake is dangerous just take a good close look at it’s teeth to find out.

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    8 months ago

    I’m sure the original image was targeted at a general audience and totally not at people studying snakes. /s

    Also, its*

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    8 months ago

    Safety Tip 1: Pick up every snake you see and inspect it’s butthole to see if it’s too dangerous to pickup.

    Safety Tip 2: Just let the snakes live their life from now on.