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“Dangerous curves going for a swim in the Yegua Creek Sunday afternoon. Looks like this Cottonmouth is not missing many meals.”
“Dangerous curves going for a swim in the Yegua Creek Sunday afternoon. Looks like this Cottonmouth is not missing many meals.”
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The brave souls taking a dip in Central Texas’ Yegua Creek had a deadly, slithery swimming companion Sunday afternoon.
Texas Parks and Wildlife spotted a cottonmouth snake in Yegua Creek, near Lake Somerville east of Austin, Sunday and uploaded a photo to Facebook which brought in comments like, “nope, nope, nope.”
“Looks like this cottonmouth is not missing any meals,” the park’s post on its Facebook page said.
Also known as the “water moccasin,” cottonmouths are a “dark, stout, thick-bodied venomous” reptile that will pop its mouth open when it gets scared, revealing a shiny white inside, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife website.
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“Western cottonmouths prefer lowland swamps, lakes, rivers, sloughs, irrigation ditches, rice fields and salt marshes, but are not confined to living in moist habitats,” the site states, which would explain why the snake was hanging out in Lake Somerville.
As they swim, cottonmouths hold their heads above the water, but duck under to bite fish to eat.
“Cottonmouths eat other snakes, including their own kind,” according to the website, and they will attack a human to protect themselves.
Only 7% of all snake bites in Texas involve cottonmouths, according to TPWD.
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