Tuesday, September 2, 2014

COTTON MOUTH MOCCASINS.

- They are highly poisonous.
- They rarely bit humans unless they feel threatened.
- They have heat sensing pits between their eyes and nostrils.
- There able to detect minute differences in temperatures so that they can strike the source of heat, which is sometimes prey.
- North Americas only poisonous water snake.
- They are also water snakes because they can swim.
- They can be found either day or night.
- They have a large body and head.
-  There diet is eating lizards, birds, baby alligators, small turtles and they even eat baby cotton mouths!
- They can be recognised when their swimming as they swim above the surface. 

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