WATER MOCCASIN

or cottonmouth, highly venomous snake, Ancistrodon piscivorus, of the swamps and bayous of the S United States. Like the closely related copperhead, it is a pit viper and has a heat-sensitive organ for detecting warm-blooded prey. The young are born live. The young snake is a pale reddish brown with transverse dark brown bands edged with white; as it ages the colors dull to a blotched olive or brown and then to an unmarked olive or blackish in old specimens. The maximum length is 6 ft (2 m), the average from 3 to 4 ft (90–120 cm). A good climber, the water moccasin often relaxes on branches overhanging the water. If startled it erects its head and shows the white interior of its mouth—hence the name cottonmouth. It eats both warm-blooded and cold-blooded animals. It is aggressive in the wild state but may become quite tame in captivity. It is classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Reptilia, order Squamata, family Crotalidae.

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books on: Water Moccasin  - 286 results

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Walking in Indian Moccasins: The Native Policies of Tommy Douglas and the CCF
Book by F. Laurie Barron; University of British Columbia Press, 1997
Subjects: Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation, Douglas, Tommy, Indians Of North America--Saskatchewan--Government Relations
...In addition, funding was made available for special projects, such as wildlife studies, the clearing of portages, and building dams to raise and maintain water levels in support of muskrat production. 33 Second, northern trappers were
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Field Book of Ponds and Streams: An Introduction to the Life of Fresh Water
Book by Ann Haven Morgan; G. P. Putnams Sons, 1930
Subjects: Freshwater Biology
...Colubrine or Harmless Snakes--Colubridae Northern water snake, "moccasin," banded water snake, Natrix sipedon, subspecies sipedon. --This common water snake of the northern states lives in sunny hollows...
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A Manual of Land and Fresh Water Vertebrate Animals of the United States (Exclusive of Birds)
Book by Henry Sherring Pratt; Blakistons, 1923
Subjects: Vertebrates--United States
...contortrix L. . Copperhead; moccasin Fig. 124 . Length 830 mm.; tail...dangerous. A. piscivorus Lacepede . Water moccasin; cottonmouth Fig. 125 . Length...perched in bushes overhanging the water; bite very dangerous. 2. Sistrurus...
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Crossroads and Unholy Water
Book by Marilene Phipps; Southern Illinois University Press, 2000
Subjects: Poetry
...all the glou glou glou under water you want and look at me with...hyacinths, my purple peckerels, my water lilies and my yellow irises...my grass! Your name may be Water Moccasin and you think this waters for your roaming but my name...
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Bright Stars, Dark Trees, Clear Water: Nature Writings from North of the Border
Book by Wayne Grady; David R. Godine, 1995
Subjects: Natural History--Canada, Nature
in Ojibway, Neemidi moccasin, Dancing Slipper. To the settlers of this country, they were moccasin flowers, squirrel shoes. Even the Greek name of the genus -- Cypripedium -- means Aphrodites little shoe. Stubbornly, I held to my contention...
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journal articles on: Water Moccasin  - 36 results

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Red Slippers and Cottonmouth Moccasins: White Anxieties in Faulkner's Indian Stories
Journal article by Robert Dale Parker; The Faulkner Journal, Vol. 18, 2002
Subjects: Culture, Faulkner, William (1897-1962), History, Literary criticism, Native North Americans, Writers
...Slippers and Cottonmouth Moccasins: White Anxieties in...When the cottonmouth moccasin rears up in "Red Leaves...figured as cottonmouth moccasins, stand in for his concerns...forest wilds. Have the waters ceased to flow? Have...he cannot swallow the water. Slaves by the Tombigbee...
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The Next "Great Dissenter"? How Clarence Thomas Is Using the Words and Principles of John Marshall Harlan to Craft a New Era of Civil Rights
Journal article by Hannah L. Weiner; Duke Law Journal, Vol. 58, 2008
Subjects: Affirmative action--Laws, regulations and rules, Civil rights law--Evaluation, Harlan, John Marshall (American Supreme Court justice 1955-1971)--Influence, Thomas, Clarence--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
...house" with no running water and basically no electricity...rattlesnakes and water moccasins. Both, he said, were...struck, while the water moccasin would strike silently...bathe in a "teaspoon of water," wash his body with...was the quintessential water moccasin. See supra notes 60...
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Faulkner's the Unvanquished
Journal article by R. Leon Scott Jr., John J. Roberts; The Explicator, Vol. 35, 1976
Subjects: American Literature--History And Criticism, English Literature--History And Criticism
...Faulkners THE UNVANQUISHED The frozen water-moccasin in Faulkner The Unvanquished...it made ice, and now we saw the moccasin where it had crawled out and was trying to get back into the water when the cold got it, so that...
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A Lynching in Stereoscope
Journal article by Stephanie Dickinson; African American Review, Vol. 38, 2004
...if I was swimming and a water moccasin bit me, would I get sick...a snake if you dont get that water." It usually takes three times...like a dog shaking off ditch water. "Thats it." A baby shrieks...They push me after my son. Red waters leaking from Alps forearms where...
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Observational Reporting as Oral History: How Journalists Interpreted the Death and Destruction of Hurricane Audrey
Journal article by John R. Tisdale; The Oral History Review, Vol. 27, 2000
Subjects: Hurricanes--Media coverage, Journalism--Social aspects, Oral history--Research
...Creole, the third day they had been in the water. Mothers held tightly to their children...and tops of the houses to escape the rising water, so too did the snakes, specifically the water moccasin, a large, poisonous, olive-brown pit...
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Paper Moccasins: Stepping toward Learning: Our Goal Was to Create More Than Just a Portrait or a Cute Little Craft; We Wanted Something Three-Dimensional Authentic Looking and Meaningful
Magazine article by Debra Sweeney; Arts & Activities, Vol. 144, January 2009
Subjects: Creative activities (Education), Creative activities and seat work, Education, Elementary--Methods, Elementary education--Methods, Moccasins (Shoes)--Design and construction, Moccasins--Design and construction, Native American culture--Study and teaching, Native Americans--Culture, Native Americans--Study and teaching
...own templates for a moccasin. The students assembled the moccasins by cutting, folding...of 50/50 glue and water and torn brown craft...the outside of the moccasins. During the project...stuffed the toe of the moccasins with plastic to keep...step we decorated the moccasin with faux fur, fringe...
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Butterfly Wrangling in Louisiana
Magazine article by Gary Noel Ross; Natural History, Vol. 104, May 1995
Subjects: Biology, Butterflies & moths, Cattle, Louisiana
...eye out for poisonous water moccasins. I noticed that the bitter...a fat, two-foot-long water moccasin. Fortunately, the creature...perch is secure from flood waters and marauding cattle. My...completely surrounded by open water, not marsh. Although it...
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Belizaire the Cajun-a Gumbo Western
Magazine article by Merry Elkins; American Cinematographer, Vol. 67, June 1986
...eight inches." In the murky waters of Lake Martin swamp where...held the camera both in the water and in a boat when he needed...Whats that? He said, "water moccasin. From then on, I made sure everybody else got in the water before me and surrounded me...
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Americans Help Katrina Victims
Magazine article by Warren Mass; The New American, Vol. 21, October 3, 2005
Subjects: Americans--Donations, Americans--Social aspects, Disaster victims--Donations, Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Environmental aspects
...stores and buying cases of water, bundles of ice...dove into the filthy waters to rescue a drowning...people make it through the water to safety, once encountering...had been bitten by a water moccasin. Another brave New Orleanian...apartment surrounded by flood waters for four days when a...
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An Aussie Joins America
Magazine article by Amy Mcmillan; PSA Journal, Vol. 65, September 1999
Subjects: Green, Jack--Conduct of life, Photographers--Australia, Photographic Society of America--Membership
...platypus keeps its eyes open under water had been denied by text books...Shark Attacks in Australian Waters, Your Aquarium, and is the...Shark Attacks in Australian Waters contained the largest list...deadliest snakes, the Mexican Water Moccasin, Jack kept such accurate records...
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Inventive Fishermen Don't Need Boats to Get Job Done on Water
Newspaper article by Gene Mueller; The Washington Times, August 19, 1996
...much about gators. A cottonmouth water moccasin, however, is another story. He...choice, but must be checked out on water at Pohick Bay. Seventy-eight percent...tournament pro. This will help tidal water bass fans. Information: 703/430...
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Snake Rattle And. Col!
Newspaper article by Bill Blighton; The Mirror (London, England), June 14, 1997
...Blighton A SNAKE EXPERT WRITES The water moccasin is a large member of the pit viper...good swimmer but wanders away from water in pursuit of food. It is brown...Yanks and a five-foot poisonous water snake to stake his claim for the...
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Nothing Beats the Timeless Plastic Worm
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 9, 2005
...under changing light conditions - appears to be a night crawler that fell into the water from a dirt bank, maybe a harmless baby water snake or a young water moccasin (cottonmouth). The same plastic worm, sold in a rainbow assortment of colors...
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Crankbaits Have Been the Key for Fritts' $360,000 Haul in '97
Newspaper article by Gene Mueller; The Washington Times, June 9, 1997
Subjects: Bass Anglers Sportsman Society
...is yours because the layer of water you want to fish in is regulated...nightcrawler, or a common eastern water snake, maybe even a not-so...around here) cottonmouthed water moccasin. In brackish tidal waters, its easy understandable how...
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58 KILLER SNAKES KEPT IN A GARAGE; Tip-Off Led to Court Rap
Newspaper article by Ian Miller; The Mirror (London, England), April 17, 1997
...weight and others had not been given water for days, the court was told. A...said he saw one one snake, called a water moccasin or cottonmouth, whose drinking bowl...of its bowl it would seem to me no water had been provided for several days...
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Water Moccasin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WATER MOCCASIN or cottonmouth, highly venomous snake , Ancistrodon...from 3 to 4 ft (90 120 cm). A good climber, the water moccasin often relaxes on branches overhanging the water. If startled it erects its head and shows the white...
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Moccasin , in Zoology
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MOCCASIN , in zoology snake: see water moccasin . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Snake , in Zoology
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the garter snakes (including the ribbon snake), the water snakes, the green, or grass, snakes, the black snakes...the pit viper family; these include the copperhead , water moccasin , rattlesnake , fer-de-lance, and bushmaster . Venomous...
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Cottonmouth
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
COTTONMOUTH see water moccasin . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Pit Viper
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...lance (genus Bothrops ) and the bushmaster (genus Lachesis ). The genus Ancistrodon includes the copperhead and water moccasin , as well as about a dozen Asian species. Pit vipers are classified in the phylum Chordata , subphylum Vertebrata...
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