The American Copperhead Venomous Snakes that Include Cottonmouth Water Moccasins and Rattlesnakes
The American Copperhead Venomous Snakes that Include Cottonmouth Water Moccasins and Rattlesnakes
Size and Weight: The adult copperhead, which has a relatively thick body, usually the size of 2-3 meters long and weighing one and a half to three-quarters of a pound.
Head: copperhead has a rather flat and roughly triangular-shaped head covered with a solid copper color. Color intensity varies with the subspecies and location. On each side of the face, the nostrils and eyes, copperhead - like other pit vipers - has two special organs, such as heat-sensing pit. Her eyes have vertical elliptical pupils. Like other snakes, it has a forked tongue. From newborn to adult, has a hollow space, folding fangs in front of the mouth. canine adults typically measure about half an inch in length.
Body : In general, authorities said Bree Herrmann, copperheads have a "reddish brown, copper body with crossbands chestnut brown ..." This man has a longer tail than the female, while females have a longer length overall.
Head: copperhead has a rather flat and roughly triangular-shaped head covered with a solid copper color. Color intensity varies with the subspecies and location. On each side of the face, the nostrils and eyes, copperhead - like other pit vipers - has two special organs, such as heat-sensing pit. Her eyes have vertical elliptical pupils. Like other snakes, it has a forked tongue. From newborn to adult, has a hollow space, folding fangs in front of the mouth. canine adults typically measure about half an inch in length.
Body : In general, authorities said Bree Herrmann, copperheads have a "reddish brown, copper body with crossbands chestnut brown ..." This man has a longer tail than the female, while females have a longer length overall.