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RE: eastern diamond back
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by SwampY on January 16, 2005
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They don't.
They are all very far south, in low elevation areas. I have a range map on my site, http://www.envenomated.com but it is very forgiving. The farthest north I've ever actually found them was below I-16 that connects Macon and Savannah.
If you have a good reason, I might can be a little more detailed than that.
Chad Minter
Author
Venomous Snakes Of The Southeast
http://www.envenomated.com
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RE: eastern diamond back
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by heavy-sets on January 17, 2005
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Actually, I am going to disagree on this. I grew up on the Alabama/Mississippi/Tennessee line close to Shiloh National Military Park. As a child, we regularly saw large diamondbacks ran over by logging trucks.
Also, and even better (info wise), when I was 6 or so, my friend's mother was bitten. She looked under the bean vines, thinking she had been stuck by a wire on the foot, and saw the snake, the pits under it's eyes, and the distinct diamond markings. The bite was the largest on record for years, and possibly still is, with fangs so far apart the first doctor to see her thought it only had one fang, never expecting another puncture wound so far away.
This occured 32 years ago, and I doubt there are many left, but every so often, I hear of one ran over, and have seen one totally flattened body that was so large and so long I can only see it being an Eastern, although I admit it was impossible to see distinguishing marks due to age. The funny thing was that the snake was hit while crossing the road with a fully grown rabbit in its stomach.
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