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Cascavel


Costa Rica is well known for having a rich variety of venomous snakes. Among the most famous / infamous is the rattle-less rattlesnake, the cascavel

Apparently common in the Guanacaste region of Costa Rica, this much feared snake is hardly ever actually seen. To find a beautiful specimen next to the cable platform we are building was a pleasant surprise - er - but a bit of a worry for the night watchman.

Using a couple of long sticks, we gently tried to persuade the snake to move on. The snake was calm and at first reluctant to move. Eventually we escorted it 50 metres down the hill, during which time, it didn’t strike once.

The next morning, the night watchman told us that as soon as we had gone, the snake simply returned to where we had first found it. Interesting

2 comments:

LẌ said...

"rattle-less rattlesnake"

That's not fair!

ammonite said...

Hi XL
It more than compensates by being very calm and beautiful

It has a strange looking tail, sort of chocolate brown with a couple of light coloured scales at the end - which it may well use as a kind of lure.