Good grief....hasn't he ever heard...."red touch yellow, kill a fellow, red touch black venom lack.". He said the snake was not poisonous because of the shape of it's head.
shareWas he wrong?
shareChucksteak, I didn't see the episode in question but from the description here it sounds like coral snake. While your rattlers do have distinctly shaped heads, coral snakes aren't as obvious.
sharePerhaps you should watch the episode then? Just a suggestion.
FYI...it was not a coral snake. My question was to point out that to the OP that even though Myke Hawke used a different method to identify the snake as non-venomous then he (the OP) does, that does not mean it was incorrect.
That saying is to distinguish between coral snakes and king snakes or milk snakes. Those all have the colors of red, yellow and black. The snake on the episode only had black and red; the saying doesn't apply to it just because it has two colors touching from that poem.
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Neither technique is an absolute. The only way to be sure is to really know your snakes.
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