The copper head

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           The copperheads venom is hemolytic it destroys the red corpuscles of the blood and releases the hemoglobin into the surrounding fluid the resultant hemorrhaging destroys the snakes normal prey mostly small mammals. They can be found in Texas,Oklahoma,Kansas,Missouri,Arkansas,Louisiana,Mississippi,Alabama and so on there habitats are mixed wood lands forests rocky arias and even in swamp like arias. The copperheads young are born alive rather than hatched from eggs.The copperhead is holds the largest amount of snake bites in the us each year thousands of documented cases of people injured every year and many pets like dogs and cats are bitten often many of these go unreported copperhead bites are rarely fatal to humans.You can find out if its male of female by the size of the body or the tail the females are longer than the males and the males tail is longer than the female. Scientists have found a chemical in the copperheads venom that can stop cancerous tumors.    

copperhead bite

The black king snake

black king snake 

            The black king snake can reach sizes up to 82 inches long the black king snake is a good snake to have around they will eat the snakes that can be bad to have around. the king snakes diet is mostly made of other snakes and small or large rats or mice lizards turtles birds and eggs and rattle snakes.
   

            The black king snake will have yellow under markings and large round eyes with round pupils there is no info on how long they live in the wild but they can live up to 33 years in a home or zoo. Some king snakes may look like there deadly counterpart but  they are not look at the picture below and you can see that for the coral snake black is on yellow and for the scarlet king snake the red is on black that is how you can tell witch is bad and witch is good to have around.

all of the king snakes 

albino scarlet king snake